I’m not sure if I’m not paying attention, or if it’s just not getting through to me, but I don’t see much discussion within the Elixir, Erlang and Gleam communities about the issues surrounding the use of ‘Artificial Intelligence’ (AI) and, in particular, Large Language Models (LLMs) in software development.

I see major problems—primarily ethical and environmental, but also financial (in the long term)—with using LLMs in software engineering.

In this post a provide a few links for those that are interested in learning more:

https://dev.to/adolfont/is-the-erlang-ecosystem-community-elixir-erlang-gleam-paying-attention-to-whats-happening-in-2mkb