Eh, most of his income and livelihood was from an ad company. Ads are equally wasteful as, and many times more harmful to the world than giga LLMs. I don't have a problem with that, nor do I have a problem with folks complainining about LLMs being wasteful. My problem is with him doing both.

You can't both take a Google salary and harp on about the societal impact of software.

Saying this as someone who likes rob pike and pretty much all of his work.

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gilrain 11 hours ago | parent [-]

“The unworthy should not speak, even if it’s the truth.”

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mattstir 11 hours ago | parent [-]

The point is that if he truly felt strongly about the subject then he wouldn't live the hypocrisy. Google has poured a truly staggering amount of money into AI data centers and AI development, and their stock (from which Rob Pike directly profits) has nearly doubled in the past 6 months due to the AI hype. Complaining on bsky doesn't do anything to help the planet or protect intellectual property rights. It really doesn't.

	▲	porridgeraisin 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yes exactly. And that is to say nothing about the rest of Google's work.