Fragments: January 22

My colleagues here at Thoughtworks have announced AI/works™, a platform for our work using AI-enabled software development. The platform is in its early days, and is currently intended to support Thoughtworks consultants in their client work. I’m looking forward to sharing what we learn from using and further developing the platform in future months. ❄ ❄ ❄ ❄ ❄ Simon Couch examines the electricity consumption of using AI. He’s a heavy user: “usually programming for a few hours, and driving 2 or 3 Claude Code instances at a time”. He finds his usage of electricity is orders of magnitude more than typical estimates based on the “typical query”. On a median day, I estimate I consume 1,300 Wh through Claude Code—4,400 “typical queries” worth. But it’s still not a massive amount of power - similar to that of running a dishwasher. A caveat to this is that this is “napkin math” because we don’t have decent data about how these models use resources. I agree with him that we ought to. ❄ ❄ ❄ ❄ ❄