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by catcam
94 days ago
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Thanks! To put some numbers behind the motivation: Rough Fermi estimate of global impact if this became standard practice:
Assumptions:
- ~1B AI queries/day touch technical docs (Copilot, ChatGPT, enterprise agents, CI/CD pipelines)
- HADS reduces tokens read per query from ~5k to ~1.5k via manifest + targeted block reading (70% reduction)
- ~0.003 Wh per 1k tokens for GPT-4 class inference (per published ML efficiency research)
- ~2 min saved per query from more precise first answers
Results:
- ~3.8 TWh electricity saved/year (~350k US homes, or ~20% of Google's annual data center consumption)
- ~12B developer hours recovered/year
- ~$60B/year in productivity at 10% adoption
These are intentionally rough — could be 10x off in either direction. The point is that documentation structure is
economically material at scale, not just an ergonomics concern.
Full writeup with methodology:
https://medium.com/@catcam_46604/ai-is-now-the-primary-reader-of-your-docs-nobody-told-your-docs-5f7103ea3281
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