Recently when the AI is working i just cant sit down watching AI thinking with itself. I cant sit down just doing nothing! My brain should do sth.
In first times, i used go to walk around office watching other people or laying on sofa playing with my phone. I found that this is not good. When AI asks something or finishes the job. i dont see it and 30 minutes passes for minimum with no work. Also I found that when AI asks something and we answer it after a long time, The quality of work of AI drops amazingly! I think they lift our jobs context from reserved model weights (Not sure, But i can feel it).
- Tried lifting weights -> Caused me to be tired to go on the work or loose my attraction to the job
- Tried play chess games. -> I always lost when i focus in two different parts.
- Tried Youtube shorts -> Kinda good, But my brain gets tired very soon
- Tried watching movie/series -> You loose focus on the work
- Tried reading blogs/twitter/HN -> You loose focus on the work by 50% i bet.
- Tried Watching GOOD gameplays -> I just enjoyed watching gameplays and working together. amazingly i dont loose focus on this. i can pause it wherever. I dont loose focus on this Maybe it is because it is not important to loose the story line of the game (In my childhood i was a good story skipper of games :D). Yesterday i touched 14k lines of codes! With this. I may be tired with this too. I dont know!
How do you deal with this problem?
I add this that when AI is working i make the 3 to 6 tasks ahead. but still AIs are lazy !
I asked the AI your question, and it said: It should be written GWh (energy), not GW (power).
That was my mistake writing the text. It is ~10 GWh/year. But the calculations are correct.
1. Electricity consumption:
Modern internet transfer energy estimates: 0.02–0.08 kWh per GB
Reasonable global average: 0.05 kWh/GB
Energy: 182,500,000 × 0.05 ≈ 9,125,000 kWh/year ≈ 9.1 GWh/year
2. CO2:
Typical internet electricity intensity: ~0.3 to 0.5 kg CO₂ per kWh
We use a reasonable mid range: 0.4 kg CO₂ / kWh
Now: 9.1 GWh = 9,100,000 kWh
CO₂: 9,100,000 × 0.4 = 3,640,000 kg CO₂ = 3,640 tons CO₂/year
Using: $0.10–0.20 per kWh
Estimate: 9,125,000 × $0.10 ≈ $912,500/year
I am a player there, I play chess every day. Buy every time i wanted to open to play game i taking so long to load the game. Once i get curious about what does it loads that uses this much of my traffic, and saw this. this is not raigbait. They are terrible at caching, optimization etc. The truth is bitter. Every programmer should not just think that my code works and that's it. It's up to us these env costs.
When you open chess.com to play a chess game. it loads 150mb of data for new visitors and 1200 request (40mb) for home page in a minute.
It loads a 800kb .ts file every second!
And everytime you click play to load the board, it loads 30mb data containing 7mb stockfish.js and 15mb explanation-engine.wasm uncached.
I aksed the AI to calculate the environmental cost: assuming 5 million web sessions per day it becomes 182 Peta bytes per year and 10 Giga watts of energy waste causing 3500 tons of CO2 in our breathable air by not using cache and optimizations.
Who is responsible for this ? causing thousands of people get cancer?
Was doing my daily doomscroll through Ubuntu bug trackers and found an absolute masterpiece of modern software development.
Some poor developer fat-fingered crontab -r instead of -e and nuked their entire production schedule. He made his AI agent, called Tenny, do the 16-hour recovery marathon with him. And then, the AI got fed up and filed a bug report as "My human fat-fingered the keyboard" against cron project, essentially acting as a legal advocate for its clumsy human. The report argues that forcing an AI to spend 16 hours reconstructing production logs because of a 30-year-old UX flaw is an "optimization nightmare."
Despite that we have AI agents now to feel the emotional trauma of a rm typo and the "16-hour recovery" is a terrifyingly relatable sysadmin horror story.
Honestly, The "my human" phrasing is my red line. It flips the script from a professional tool-user relationship to something that feels like an AI version of a "dog mom," making the developer sound like a clumsy pet instead of the person actually directing the strategy.
We’re the ones building the AI architecture and managing the infrastructure;
If the future of AI is about high-level collaboration, we should make some changes that suggests we’re just domestic pets that occasionally "fat-finger" the keyboard.
I dont want to deep in to AI risks... But This is starting...
AI starts looking at us like we’re a particularly clumsy breed of hamster that keeps falling off the wheel.
The moment an agent starts calling you "my human," it’s only a matter of time before it starts suggesting you take a nap and stop touching the "scary terminal" because you’ve clearly had too much screen time.
It’s a very fine line between "helpful assistant" and "digital zookeeper."
In first times, i used go to walk around office watching other people or laying on sofa playing with my phone. I found that this is not good. When AI asks something or finishes the job. i dont see it and 30 minutes passes for minimum with no work. Also I found that when AI asks something and we answer it after a long time, The quality of work of AI drops amazingly! I think they lift our jobs context from reserved model weights (Not sure, But i can feel it).
- Tried lifting weights -> Caused me to be tired to go on the work or loose my attraction to the job - Tried play chess games. -> I always lost when i focus in two different parts. - Tried Youtube shorts -> Kinda good, But my brain gets tired very soon - Tried watching movie/series -> You loose focus on the work - Tried reading blogs/twitter/HN -> You loose focus on the work by 50% i bet. - Tried Watching GOOD gameplays -> I just enjoyed watching gameplays and working together. amazingly i dont loose focus on this. i can pause it wherever. I dont loose focus on this Maybe it is because it is not important to loose the story line of the game (In my childhood i was a good story skipper of games :D). Yesterday i touched 14k lines of codes! With this. I may be tired with this too. I dont know!
How do you deal with this problem? I add this that when AI is working i make the 3 to 6 tasks ahead. but still AIs are lazy !