Recording: The Next FLOSS Frontier?

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About

LLMs are revolutionising coding:

• Empowering non-programmers to solve previously intractable problems.

• Shovelling toxic agentic asbestos into our digital infrastructure

• Making existing professional programmers hundreds of times more productive

• Destroying the jobs market and causing layoffs

• Finding CVEs and making us more secure

• Wasting ecosystem-changing quantities of electricity and water

As a professional programmer and lover of Free and Open Software, should I be embracing GenAI or boycotting it?

Member Gareth Smith is here to give their thoughts, in a talk and Q&A.

This talk was held in Oxford on 4 June 2026, as part of this initiative. We have Oxford-based events about free, libre and open-source software, in-person and online for everyone!

Sections

Introduction / The Rules

00:00

AI Centralises Power

01:02

Does AI Even Work?

17:10

AI Burns Electricity

32:05

Q&A

39:05

What do we do about it?

45:36

More Q&A

46:40

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