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Simon Willison
@simonwillison.net

This is great - it's about time someone updated the discourse on LLM energy usage to reflect that coding agents use massively more prompts than occasional questions to ChatGPT Simon estimates that a day of coding agent usage comes out close to the energy needed to run a dishwasher

Simon P. Couch@simonpcouch.com

Whenever I read discourse on AI energy/water use that focuses on the "median query," I can't help but feel misled. Coding agents like Claude Code send hundreds of longer-than-median queries every session, and I run dozens of sessions a day. On my blog: www.simonpcouch.com/blog/2026-01...

Anil Dash
@anildash.com

What I’m really curious about is the impact of fleets of frontier-model bots. People are going to be Hello World-ing that approach a lot soon.

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Phillip Carter
@phillipcarter.dev

All signs very much do point towards orchestration of a large N of agents 24/7 with durable state so context rot doesn’t happen. A serious acceleration but one that is significantly hard capped on power capacity