Disclaimer: not promoting or supporting AI usage, but adding some observations after reading.
Two points that needs more exploration.
One is briefly mentioned by the author that AI usage of a software engineer is at the very end of usage distribution. So this cannot be taken as a generalised estimate as the tiltle suggest.
Second, I don’t see any mention of energy usage for research and development of the models. This is about what happens once the model is built. Unless AI companies disclose this, these are not going to put things into perspective.
Iirc training takes the most energy. They claim that models take very little energy to run but fail to mention that training the models needs to essentially happen forever to make the next best model, and then the next.
The only stopping point is when they create “god” “agi” which I think you have to even be more batshit crazy to believe will ever happen. I at least understand why desperate billionairs dillute themselves into thinking this death cult will some how work out. Its a death cult it either works out or they all go down with it. To even consider if they where wrong would be to stare into the abyss.
Two points that needs more exploration.
One is briefly mentioned by the author that AI usage of a software engineer is at the very end of usage distribution. So this cannot be taken as a generalised estimate as the tiltle suggest.
Second, I don’t see any mention of energy usage for research and development of the models. This is about what happens once the model is built. Unless AI companies disclose this, these are not going to put things into perspective.
Iirc training takes the most energy. They claim that models take very little energy to run but fail to mention that training the models needs to essentially happen forever to make the next best model, and then the next.
The only stopping point is when they create “god” “agi” which I think you have to even be more batshit crazy to believe will ever happen. I at least understand why desperate billionairs dillute themselves into thinking this death cult will some how work out. Its a death cult it either works out or they all go down with it. To even consider if they where wrong would be to stare into the abyss.
For your second point: https://epoch.ai/data-insights/power-usage-trend
For the first one: I would say agentic workloads are Software engineering workflows.