Yupp, plus the fact that I unwillingly send prompts out by visiting a website that now has a chatbot nag me;
Among other annoyances in the economy of scale that say "if it is cheap, just use more of it".
This is a good point. If we are marching towards some sort of LLM-driven world, where every company wants to have automated AI agents for customer service, internal development, marketing and prospecting, the energy usage will compound. A simple RAG system can be expected to make 5 or more prompts per query, and multi-agent systems like Roo Code power through tens of prompts for any given task.
