Well this is interesting

Well this is interesting

Pretty sure. That person has that CO2 footprint whether he/she uses its wetware or lets it atrophy by using artificial LLMs. But using the articificial LLM is going to have an additional CO2 footprint.

A potential environmental benefit of using your wetware may be that thinking about the problem may take longer, and you may have less time for activities that harms the environment more than programming does.