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Hyper 8 Recorded Events - FLOxford

The Next FLOSS Frontier? by Gareth Smith

00:00 Introduction / The Rules

01:02 AI Centralises Power

17:10 Does AI Even Work?

32:05 AI Burns Electricity

39:05 Q&A

45:36 What do we do about it?

46:40 More Q&A

LLMs are revolutionising coding:

- Empowering non-programmers to solve previously intractable problems

- Shovelling toxic agentic asbestos into our digital infrastructure

- Making existing professional programmers hundreds of times more productive

- Destroying the jobs market and causing layoffs

- Finding CVEs and making us more secure

- Wasting ecosystem-changing quantities of electricity and water

As a professional programmer and lover of Free and Open Software, should I be embracing GenAI or boycotting it?

Member Gareth Smith is here to give their thoughts, in a talk and Q&A.

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