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Like most capitalist products, commercial LLMs are an ecological, social, and economic aberration in how they're built and deployed.

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We must fix this by building democratically controlled public AI services, rationing water and power, fairly compensating workers extracting raw materials needed for hardware and training-data creators, and banning harmful or useless use cases.

We need this alternative all the more because I fully agree with Linus Torvalds: these tools are impressive, and refusing them outright is unprofessional. Weeks of senior dev labor can no longer match what AI uncovers in minutes regarding security flaws, bugs, and performance optimization!