Are you using your PC less hours per day?
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Zozano@aussie.zone 11 hours agoI’ve been think about this for a while. Consider how quick LLM’s are.
If the amount of energy spent powering your device (without an LLM), is more than using an LLM, then it’s probably saving energy.
In all honesty, I’ve probably saved over 50 hours or more since I starred using it about 2 months ago.
Coding has become incredibly efficient, and I’m not suffering through search-engine hell any more.
ryannathans@aussie.zone 11 hours ago
Zozano@aussie.zone 11 hours ago
Yep, more time for doing home renovations.
xthexder@l.sw0.com 3 hours ago
Just writing code uses almost no energy. Your PC should be clocking down when you’re not doing anything. 1GHz is plenty for text editing.
Does ChatGPT reduce the number of times you hit build? Because that’s where all the electricity goes.
Aux@feddit.uk 1 hour ago
What kind of code are you writing that your CPU goes to sleep? If you follow any good practices like TDD, atomic commits, etc, and your code base is larger than hello world, your PC will be running at its peak quite a lot.
Example: linting on every commit + TDD. You’ll be making loads of commits every day, linting a decent code base will definitely push your CPU to 100% for a few seconds. Running tests, even with caches, will push CPU to 100% for a few minutes. Plus compilation for running the app, some apps take hours to compile.
In general, text editing is a small part of the developer workflow. Only junior devs spend a lot of time typing stuff.
Zozano@aussie.zone 3 hours ago
Except that half the time I dont know what the fuck on doing. It’s normal for me to spend hours trying to figure out why a small config file isnt working.
That’s not just text editing, that’s browsing the internet, referring to YouTube videos, or wallowing in self-pity.
That was before I started using gpt.
xthexder@l.sw0.com 3 hours ago
It sounds like it does save you a lot of time then. I haven’t had the same experience, but I did all my learning to program before LLMs.
Personally I think the amount of power saved here is negligible, but it would actually be an interesting study to see just how much it is.
Zozano@aussie.zone 1 hour ago
It doesn’t always get the answers right, and I have to re-feed its broken instructions back into itself to get the right scripts, but for someone with no official coding training, this saves me so much damn time.
Consider I’m juggling learning Linux starting from 4 years ago, along with python, rust, nixos, bash scripts, yaml scripts, etc.
It’s a LOT.
For what it’s worth, I dont just take the scripts and paste them in, I’m always trying to understand what the code does, so I can be less reliant as time goes on.