One month coding with GLM 5.3 Flash

Re:One month coding with GLM 5.3 Flash by driverdan on Saturday October 03, 2026 @09:26AM (#49944064)

No one is celebrating and using LLMs isn't necessarily a waste of energy. Where I live isn't relevant, LLMs use the same amount of power regardless of where their users are. You also know nothing about how I use electricity in my home, how I monitor my overall energy use and carbon output, and how I offset it.

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Re:One month coding with GLM 5.3 Flash by nicoburns on Saturday October 03, 2026 @10:33AM (#49944627)

> You also know nothing about how I use electricity in my home

I don't

> Where I live isn't relevant,

But where you live does matter. Average monthly household energy usage in the EU is 200-400 kWh. In the US it's more like 800-900kWh. So what you consider "normal energy usage" may vary considerably by where you live.

At 200-400kWh total usage, 30kwh starts to look a lot more significant. So you should at least consider the possibility that it's not that energy usage from AI is insignificant, but that your existing energy usage is wasteful.

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Re:One month coding with GLM 5.3 Flash by oblio on Saturday October 03, 2026 @10:35AM (#49944661)

You're American and the same 2.3% of energy you use would probably represents 5-10% of what the average Japanese person uses, and likely 15-20% of what the average Indian or Ethiopian uses.

My point isn't to attack you personally (I'd rather attack your country's disastrous energy policies) but to point out that LLMs will constitute a huge increase in our energy consumption at a time where we haven't transitioned to renewable energy and we're probably 20-30 away from it.

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