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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...

Josh You

@justjoshinyou.bsky.social

20 Jan

hey, nice work! what does your (cached) input:output ratio look like? I don't strongly vouch for our estimates of input/attention costs still being relevant today so would be useful to know how sensitive this is to inputs vs outputs

Simon P. Couch

@simonpcouch.com

Very much appreciated your blog post when putting this one together. Thank you. That ratio is very, very input-heavy, so would likely be quite sensitive to those estimates.

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Josh You

@justjoshinyou.bsky.social

21 Jan

glad it helped! my hope was to inspire more and better work on energy costs of AI. It was moderately but definitely not wholly successful on this: we still need more transparency!