[mark_l_watson]

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...

[kridsdale1]

FYI, Gemini is the most environmentally friendly model.

https://share.google/aimode/a0O95wzk2UUhIXLUI

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure/measur...

[mark_l_watson]

Thanks 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.