Absolutely agree! My points were more about the benefits of running code on your own machine rather than in the cloud or on a cluster. I don’t own an M1, but if

Absolutely agree! My points were more about the benefits of running code on your own machine rather than in the cloud or on a cluster. I don’t own an M1, but if I did I wouldn’t want to use it to train models locally... When on my laptop I still deploy to my lab desktop; this adds little friction compared to a compute cluster, and as you mention we’re able to do interesting stuff with a regular gaming GPU. When everything works great and I now want to experiment at scale, I then deploy my working code to a supercomputer.