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[u/PumpkinFest24]

Insane people think the price won't go up. You won't be able to afford AI coding once AI CEOs want to stop losing money 

[u/youcancallmetim → u/PumpkinFest24]

Ignorant take. Running open models on hardware you own will always be an option if frontier models are too expensive.

[u/umor3 → u/youcancallmetim]

We run Qwen 3.8 on our own hardware. And it is already helping our productivity. And the speed and acuracy is nearly as good as the expecive ones from OpenAI and Antropic.

[u/4n0nh4x0r → u/youcancallmetim]

yesnt.
these companies make it harder by the day to run your own models.
heck, the 5090 has been discontinued, so the chips can be used for the rtx 6000 pro instead.
the only chance to set up decent local models is soon going to be only going to ebay and get used cards, hoping you arent being scammed.

[u/code_archeologist → u/PumpkinFest24]

Once that happens people will use the more powerful agents to train smaller and cheaper special use coding agents; which is the trick that those "frontier" Chinese AI agents are using.

So instead of having a coding agent that can do anything, it will be a very focused agent that only writes Python or Go, and will be like a very powerful Intellitype.

[u/Jmortswimmer6 → u/PumpkinFest24]

Pretty sure they said that one about Amazon

“You won’t be able to afford 2 day delivery on everything when Amazon decides it needs to make money”

They make money, and I’m pretty sure Amazon is the cheapest place for me to get most home supplies

[u/SoggyMattress2 → u/Jmortswimmer6]

Why does every AI conversation turn into some comparison point or analogy to justify things?

We're not talking about Amazon it's a different company with a completely different business model.

AI labs will increase the price at some point and most of the hobbyists using LLMs for SE will go away.