Angelina YangFounder and Host, TwoSetAI · AI builder for visibility and discoverability

Why AI Making You More Productive Isn't Actually Helping the Planet

12 Mar 2026 · 0 min

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Angelina Yang explains how AI tools let developers write code faster, but the speed doesn't create downtime. Instead, people do more work. As AI models handle bigger context windows, from 10,000 tokens to a million, users consume more resources rather than less, erasing any environmental gains.

Now we have AI, you know, people are vibe coding. I code faster, I write faster. So everybody is accelerating, but I don't feel like I'm relaxing in the afternoon. I'm just feeling I'm doing more.
Now computing attention or using these transformer class of models is more efficient. That did not stop us from making, you know, using it less, right? Because now we think, okay, it's cheaper. So instead of previously what I had a context window of 10,000, I can go a million tokens. This is an exact manifestation of what we call the rebound effect.