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I don't ever want to be dependent on a cloud service to be productive, and I don't want to have to pay money to experiment with code. Paying money for probabil

by jckahn 11mo ago

I don't ever want to be dependent on a cloud service to be productive, and I don't want to have to pay money to experiment with code. Paying money for probabilistically generated tokens is effectively gambling. I don't like to gamble.

nprateem 11mo ago
Where did you get your free GPU from?
- jckahn 11mo ago
  I just use my AMD Framework 13 and 24GB M4 Mac mini. They run gpt-oss models, but only the 20b fits on the mini.
- nicce 11mo ago
  The problem is the same as owning the house vs. renting.
- serf 11mo ago
  GPUs can do other things. Cloud service LLM providers cannot.