>Let’s address the elephant in the room first: why bother with local AI at all when cloud frontier models are better and often faster?Ehh, the actual elephant in the room is:"why bother with local AI at all when you can lease a GPU for $5/hr?"To which the answer is you shouldn't bother, unless you have a bunch of money to throw at hobby projects.
> unless you have a bunch of money to throw at hobby projects.there are lots of people with very expensive hobbies, see sailboat racing for example.
WarmWash · · focus · HN ↗
Ehh, the actual elephant in the room is:
"why bother with local AI at all when you can lease a GPU for $5/hr?"
To which the answer is you shouldn't bother, unless you have a bunch of money to throw at hobby projects.
chasd00 · · focus · HN ↗
there are lots of people with very expensive hobbies, see sailboat racing for example.
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