Comment by alganet

Maybe I'm not.

However, I'm discussing this within the context of the study presented in the paper, not some future yet-to-be-achieved performance expectation.

If we step outside the context of the paper (not advised), I think any average developer is better than an LLM at energy efficiency. LLMs cheat by consuming more resources than a human. "Better" is quite relative. So, let's keep reasonable.