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simonwyesterday at 11:04 PM0 repliesview on HN

At first glance this looks like a credible set of calculations to me. Here's the conclusion:

> So, if I wanted to analogize the energy usage of my use of coding agents, it’s something like running the dishwasher an extra time each day, keeping an extra refrigerator, or skipping one drive to the grocery store in favor of biking there.

That's for someone spending about $15-$20 in a day on Claude Code, estimated at the equivalent of 4,400 "typical queries" to an LLM.