Matt Kane
@mk.gg
Frameworks at Cloudflare 🧡 Astro core team 🚀 Previously Netlify, Gatsby. Made Unpic. @ascorbic in most other places
Total energy use is indeed very high, but that's because hundreds of millions or even billions of people are using it. But as a percentage of a person's own energy usage or environmental impact it's tiny, and focusing on individual use is a distraction from more important issues
December 18, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Total energy use is indeed very high, but that's because hundreds of millions or even billions of people are using it. But as a percentage of a person's own energy usage or environmental impact it's tiny, and focusing on individual use is a distraction from more important issues
If you're referring to training, the energy use is indeed massive, but it's amortised across billions of interference requests, so per query is absolutely tiny compared to the direct usage.
December 18, 2025 at 4:33 PM
If you're referring to training, the energy use is indeed massive, but it's amortised across billions of interference requests, so per query is absolutely tiny compared to the direct usage.
A typical LLM query uses about 0.3WH, which is about 30 seconds of laptop use, so doing research the hard way certainly uses more energy. I can offset it by driving my EV 2 meters less next time, or turning off my kettle half a second earlier.
December 18, 2025 at 8:27 AM
A typical LLM query uses about 0.3WH, which is about 30 seconds of laptop use, so doing research the hard way certainly uses more energy. I can offset it by driving my EV 2 meters less next time, or turning off my kettle half a second earlier.
They provide links, and they're good at it now. They used to be bad at it, but they're loads better now and you can click through and check.
December 18, 2025 at 7:12 AM
They provide links, and they're good at it now. They used to be bad at it, but they're loads better now and you can click through and check.
Aside from coding, this is the thing I use it for most. It's so much easier now to search for stuff that's hard to put into the right words.
December 18, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Aside from coding, this is the thing I use it for most. It's so much easier now to search for stuff that's hard to put into the right words.
Maybe you can also split the business models from the tech? LLMs are incredible technology, sometimes used in bad ways. The Haber-Bosch process helped kill millions in WW1 and also saved billions from starvation.
December 18, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Maybe you can also split the business models from the tech? LLMs are incredible technology, sometimes used in bad ways. The Haber-Bosch process helped kill millions in WW1 and also saved billions from starvation.
If Demis Hassabis was as famous as Sam Altman I think the cognitive dissonance would break their minds even more. The same guy that's building Gemini and AI overview is building this and winning a Nobel Prize for AlphaFold.
December 18, 2025 at 6:43 AM
If Demis Hassabis was as famous as Sam Altman I think the cognitive dissonance would break their minds even more. The same guy that's building Gemini and AI overview is building this and winning a Nobel Prize for AlphaFold.
LLMs are ML too. This is built on the Google DeepMind GraphCast foundation model. Yes, the same DeepMind that built the Gemini LLM, and won a Nobel Prize last year for AlphaFold.
December 18, 2025 at 6:35 AM
LLMs are ML too. This is built on the Google DeepMind GraphCast foundation model. Yes, the same DeepMind that built the Gemini LLM, and won a Nobel Prize last year for AlphaFold.
I don't know about you but I got a ton of those spam notifications until Bluesky got better at banning them. If you think that the ones that use that particular platform abuse are the only spammers then you're a more trusting person than I am.
December 17, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I don't know about you but I got a ton of those spam notifications until Bluesky got better at banning them. If you think that the ones that use that particular platform abuse are the only spammers then you're a more trusting person than I am.
I'm pretty happy they're removing posts and accounts like this
December 17, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I'm pretty happy they're removing posts and accounts like this
@dame.is has taken a different approach
i'm giving the people what they want — i'm adding an EDIT button to @anisota.net (coming very very soon)
testing (this is an edited post within anisota!)
December 17, 2025 at 2:21 PM
@dame.is has taken a different approach
Yes, I understand the expression, and generally take it literally because on X I see actual Nazis within minutes if I make the mistake of reading anything. I can't think of the last time I saw anything like that here, because they get banned or blocklisted within minutes.
December 17, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Yes, I understand the expression, and generally take it literally because on X I see actual Nazis within minutes if I make the mistake of reading anything. I can't think of the last time I saw anything like that here, because they get banned or blocklisted within minutes.