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Great article that reinforces my own opinion but adding the cleverness of adding low cost human labor into the equation. Nice. I spent a month comparing Gemini
by mark_l_watson 5mo ago
Great article that reinforces my own opinion but adding the cleverness of adding low cost human labor into the equation. Nice.
I spent a month comparing Gemini Ultra plan to using much lower cost DeepSeek v4 with open source coding harnesses and, spoiler alert: I was happier using the much cheaper and more environmentally friendly open models: https://marklwatson.substack.com/p/my-evaluation-of-ai-agent-use-vs https://marklwatson.substack.com/p/my-evaluation-of-ai-agent...
- kridsdale1 5mo agoFYI, Gemini is the most environmentally friendly model. https://share.google/aimode/a0O95wzk2UUhIXLUI https://share.google/aimode/a0O95wzk2UUhIXLUI https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure/measuring-the-environmental-impact-of-ai-inference/ https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure/measur...
- mark_l_watson 5mo agoThanks for the references. BTW, Google is my pick for the winner in the USA tech giants AI race. I worked at Google about 12 years ago and was impressed by their use of renewable energy, etc.