Sure but energy use per datacenters was on a downward trend before ai, then it went the other way hard

First thing I looked for was your prompt, well done on redacting it

My guess is that it’s because people are using apps to get around Google’s revenue generating mechanisms, like apps to get YouTube without ads.

That sounds like you’re still doing a lot of work. Is that net new work you wouldn’t have done before (like would you have needed to write those docs before as well)? Writing code never feels like the complicated or time expensive part to me. Figuring out what I want to do is, and I need to do that with either approach, and then thinking through how I’d like to organize things is another time sink, and perhaps that can be replaced/augmented by ai, but organizing things well requires long term thinking and is very hard to explain