This topic is mired in big feelings, so I tend to avoid publicly writing about it, but I've been revisiting this topic in conversations with friends recently. So instead of continuing to copy-paste my thoughts to friends in private, I decided to publish a thing.
If you have thoughts, please feel free to comment, reply, message me, etc... but, given the big feelings that I often see around this topic: please also remember to be kind.
https://treyhunner.com/2026/02/on-the-enviromental-impact-of-llms-for-coding/