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This should be a warning to those who feel that it's ok to offload your creativity to a subscription service. Always need a local model in some form.
This is a simple supply and demand curve.
Higher demand means the price goes up .. this has been true of things since before SaaS and before computers
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People will insist otherwise, but I haven't seen anything close to sonnet 4.6 that can be run locally.
I don't think anyone can honestly say a huge frontier model is actually going to be matched by something running on 64gb locally?
This should be a warning to those who feel that it's ok to offload your creativity to a subscription service. Always need a local model in some form.
You could judge the costs of the AI products you're using by the standard API pricing, not promotional subscription offers.
This should be a warning to those who feel that it's ok to offload your creativity to a subscription service. Always need a local model in some form.
Are there local models that are anywhere near as good at coding as opus 4.6?
Maybe those already on $20 a month plans won't be nerfed much more? It's yet another austerity move, pretty much in line with the recent ones.
I burned already through over 100$ in a single day with per token payment for heavy usage. I don't have any issues with Claude not working or being "nerfed". It just works
This should be a warning to those who feel that it's ok to offload your creativity to a subscription service. Always need a local model in some form.
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I’m sorry but that’s just dumb. An LLM is a tool. Your brain is not a substitute for an LLM in the same way your fingers are not a substitute for a wrench. The year is 2026 and if you are using your brain on chore work like one-off scripts, refactoring, boilerplate test code, then you are wasting time and money and I don’t want to work with you. Local models are fine for this and can do it in a fraction of the time y…
The year is 2026 the average RAM for the most common type of developer’s (web) machine is 16GB. 8 will be the lower end. Tell me which model can one run on this machine locally?
This should be a warning to those who feel that it's ok to offload your creativity to a subscription service. Always need a local model in some form.
This doesn’t affect existing users. This is a simple supply and demand curve. Higher demand means the price goes up .. this has been true of things since before SaaS and before computers
This should be a warning to those who feel that it's ok to offload your creativity to a subscription service. Always need a local model in some form.
Local models are not comparable to the FOTA models at all. I know what I'm saying because I do have 4 local H100's in my server, and could run the very best local models. It's night and day. They are unusable and stupid.
This should be a warning to those who feel that it's ok to offload your creativity to a subscription service. Always need a local model in some form.
Local models are not comparable to the FOTA models at all. I know what I'm saying because I do have 4 local H100's in my server, and could run the very best local models. It's night and day. They are unusable and stupid.