Redditors actually believe this

Also, they seem to care about wasting electricity but doesn’t bat an eye of discarding a perfectly fine printer.

I'm not GP but I assume the point they were making was that throwing away the old printer a buying a new one would consume less world resources than using Claude to build this driver.

Do we have good numbers for the embodied energy of a printer? I would be interested to know what the actual cutoff point is.