Comment by jckahn

Comment by jckahn 3 days ago

4 replies

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 3 days ago

Where did you get your free GPU from?

  • nicce 3 days ago

    The problem is the same as owning the house vs. renting.

  • jckahn 3 days 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.

  • serf 3 days ago

    GPUs can do other things. Cloud service LLM providers cannot.