Reading the comments it becomes clear how befuddled many HN participants are about AI. I don't think there has been a technical topic that HN has seemed so dul

Reading the comments it becomes clear how befuddled many HN participants are about AI. I don't think there has been a technical topic that HN has seemed so dull on in the many years I've been reading HN. This must be an indication that we are in a bubble. One basic point that is often missed is: Different aspects of LLM performance (in the cognitive performance sense) and LLM resource utilization are relevant to various use cases and business models. Another is that there are many use cases where users prefer to run inference locally, for a variety of domain-specific or business model reasons. The list goes on.