[HN Gopher] Electricity use of AI coding agents
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       Electricity use of AI coding agents
        
       Author : linolevan
       Score  : 4 points
       Date   : 2026-01-20 18:02 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | linolevan wrote:
       | Had a small discussion about this on an OP on bsky. A somewhat
       | interesting discussion over there.
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       | https://bsky.app/profile/simonpcouch.com/post/3mcuf3eazzs2c
        
       | HNisCIS wrote:
       | LLMs don't use much energy at all to run, they use it all at the
       | beginning for training, which is happening constantly right now.
       | 
       | TLDR this is, intentionally or not, an industry puff piece that
       | completely misunderstands the problem.
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       | Also, even if everyone is effectively running a a dishwasher
       | cycle every day, this is still a _problem_ that we can 't just
       | ignore, that's still a massive increase in ecological impact.
        
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