One month coding with GLM 5.3 Flash

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I chose the 'wrong' model for the prototype, and we spent 450M tokens / $150 / 5kWh of energy use almost overnight. This is particularly essential as we start to benchmark models’ performance on Wagtail tasks, where we need data across a wide range of models. A viable target is probably that the majority of AI inference work should be done with such efficient models, measured in cost or energy use rather than meaningless tokens.

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