Hobby programmer her as well. I know you I’ve spent a lot of time searching for solutions or hints for, especially when it’s about edge cases. So using AI as an alt. to a search engine have saved me sooo much time!
Another thing with the approach. I read somewhere that it require about 10 times as much energy to ask an AI instead of doing a web search and spending a little time looking through the result. So it’s something I try to think of to motivate myself with, to do as many usual web searches as possible, saving AI queries for when it matters more.
I would say it’s more like 1000 times more energy. Trillions of matrix math computations for a handful of tokens at max speed and CPU/GPU usage, compared to a 10 millisecond database query (or in wiki’s case, probably mostly just easy direct edge node cache with no processing involved.)
Hobby programmer her as well. I know you I’ve spent a lot of time searching for solutions or hints for, especially when it’s about edge cases. So using AI as an alt. to a search engine have saved me sooo much time!
Another thing with the approach. I read somewhere that it require about 10 times as much energy to ask an AI instead of doing a web search and spending a little time looking through the result. So it’s something I try to think of to motivate myself with, to do as many usual web searches as possible, saving AI queries for when it matters more.
I would say it’s more like 1000 times more energy. Trillions of matrix math computations for a handful of tokens at max speed and CPU/GPU usage, compared to a 10 millisecond database query (or in wiki’s case, probably mostly just easy direct edge node cache with no processing involved.)
Alright, yea sounds fair enough, even better motivation to prioritize search engines!