I don’t usually share what I build. Most of it lives on Codeberg or Github as a glorified off-site backup. 3-2-1 and all that. If I nuke my drive, I can pull it back down. That’s the whole point for me.
A while back I mentioned Pimaps here, a few people asked to see it, so I posted it. Got dunked on for AI slop despite explicitly marking which parts were AI-assisted (documentation and review- flagged with AIP). Similar story with Cliparr. I get it - Lemmy hates AI in any capacity.
What does the community actually expect from devs when sharing a project? I’m not assuming everyone here is a professional dev - though I’d guess the overlap is significant - so I’m wondering where the bar sits.
Polish? Full handwritten codebase? Something else?
How much of the sausage making do you actually want to see?
That’s not a 1:1 comparison.
One person uses one phone. The embodied cost - energy, materials, waste - maps directly to that one device. You can’t use a phone without incurring its full lifecycle cost.
But one person doesn’t bear the full cost of a GPU, a data centre, or a training run. Those costs are distributed across every user of that system. If we’re arguing per-capita impact, the LLM side of the ledger needs to be divided by its actual user base, not compared whole against a single handset.
You’d need to compare either one phone to one person’s proportional share of LLM infrastructure, or the entire phone industry against the entire LLM industry.
And given rare earth extraction, cobalt supply chains, labour abuse, e-waste generation and global market scale, that industry-level comparison probably doesn’t favour phones as cleanly as you’d expect.
And that’s before social harms enter the ledger, which the phone industry has a considerable head start on (eg: adolescent mental health, attention economy design, surveillance capitalism, algorithmic radicalisation…)