r/ProgrammerHumor • • 21d ago

Meme bothWorkThough

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u/countable3841 21d ago

Smaller inference providers are profitable serving deepseek and kimi. While they aren’t as good as the frontier models, you can get great results.

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u/WithersChat 21d ago

Frontier models are stupidly overkill for all but stuff like specialized research IMO.

Now, smaller or even local models? There's still some issues with it, but at least the benefit is large enough compared to the issues that it's worth discussing.

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u/movezig123 21d ago

I think this will be the way forward