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wackget | 23 days ago

How much electricity (and associated materials like water) must this use?

It makes me profoundly sad to think of the huge number of AI agents running endlessly to produce vibe-coded slop. The environmental impact must be massive.

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jjice|23 days ago

If you'd like an estimate, I like this from Simon Willison: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/29/

Keep in mind that these are estimates, but you could attempt to extrapolate from here. Programming prompts probably take more because I assume the average context is a good bit higher than the average ChatGPT question, plus additional agents.

All in, I'm not sure if the energy usage long term is going to be overblown by media or if it'll be accurate. I'm personally not sure yet.