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Why I built a zero-telemetry Chrome extension to measure the physical cost of AI prompts

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Every developer today relies on LLMs. Whether it's drafting boilerplate, refactoring complex logic, or debugging edge cases on ChatGPT , Google Gemini , or Claude , queries are sent dozens of times a day. Yet the thermodynamic and compute realities of these queries remain invisible. Matrix multipli…

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  1. 2026-09-08 17:46 · DEV Community — AI
    Why I built a zero-telemetry Chrome extension to measure the physical cost of AI prompts

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