WaterYouDoin
2nd out of 127 teams
McHacks · 2026
Every question you ask an AI uses real water to cool the computers that answer it. This browser add-on catches questions a normal search could answer, nudges you to skip them, and shows the water you saved as little ice cubes.
AI tools are incredibly powerful, but we noticed developers often use them for things that don’t actually need AI, like definitions, quick lookups, or repetitive prompts. We wanted to encourage more intentional AI use without blocking or judging developers. Encouraging a more productive use of AI and avoid rabbit holes of intellectual doom. WaterYourDoin is a browser extension that locally analyzes prompts before they’re sent to an AI assistant. All decisions happen locally, and the extension visualizes avoided AI usage as water savings using a fun ice-cube mascot. We built a Chrome extension using TypeScript and Vite. Prompt classification runs entirely in the browser using lightweight NLP heuristics with an optional ML fallback.
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