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The prospect of AI agents running continuously sparked visceral alarm among commenters, who fear the massive environmental toll of such widespread energy and water consumption. Many expressed a "physical flinch" at the idea of millions of users accelerating climate change just to produce what they dismiss as low-quality "vibe-coded slop." Ultimately, these critics argue that the marginal productivity gains of constant background inference tasks are not worth the ecological cost of "cooking the planet."