When It Comes to Energy Use, AI Agents Could Make Chatbots Look Like Pocket Calculators
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Agentic workflows that run long, multi-step processes to answer simple tasks like email are a power-budget problem, not just a UX upgrade. If you’re piloting agents, start measuring energy and latency per completed task now — cost curves may decide which use cases survive.
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