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Marcel Salathé
Personal blog · engineeringprompts.substack.comaiwriting
Marcel Salathé writes Engineering Prompts, a personal blog at engineeringprompts.substack.com about ai and writing. Since 2023, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Sorry Human, You're Wrong”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post on whether using ChatGPT is bad for the environment, arguing against alarmism. One commenter calls it a very nice article but says its energy figures are outdated.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Figuring out the age of AI in real time.
Most-linked posts?
- Sorry Human, You're Wrong2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-12-15
- AI Energy Use in Everyday Terms – By Marcel Salathé2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-03-29
What Hacker News says?
Not to say AI doesn't require a lot of power, but I don't know if we need to be alarmist about it: https://engineeringprompts.substack.com/p/does-chatgpt-use-1... https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/12/generative-ai-the-powe...
Comment linking /p/does-chatgpt-use-10x-more-energy
on “OpenAI is building a social network?”Submitted Sorry Human, You're Wrong as a story · 18 points
HN discussionA very nice article. But the google search and LLM energy estimates are outdated. More recent work put both at 10x less. https://engineeringprompts.substack.com/p/does-chatgpt-use-1...
Comment linking /p/does-chatgpt-use-10x-more-energy?triedRedirect=true
on “Using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment”Submitted AI Energy Use in Everyday Terms – By Marcel Salathé as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted The average ChatGPT request uses ~0.34Wh as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI models pushing back: A cautionary tale of the artificial confidence of o1 pro as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI and jobs: The decline started before ChatGPT as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI Sovereignty: The Emperor Has No Clothes as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI Energy Use in Everyday Terms as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Move fast and forget your mission: What the OpenAI coup tells us as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Artificial Intelligence: What to Worry About as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
