alt Hacker NewsYes, the genie is out of the bottle but could get back right in when it starts costing more, a whole lot more. I'm sure there's an amount of money for a monthly subscription that you'd either scale back your use or consider other alternatives. LLM as technology is indeed out of the bottle and here to stay but the current business around it is is not quite clear.
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Yes, the genie is out of the bottle but could get back right in when it starts costing more, a whole lot more.
Local models are already good enough to handle some meaningful programming work, and they run very well on an expensive-but-not-unattainable PC. You could cheat your way through an undergrad CS curriculum with Qwen 80b, certainly, including most liberal-arts requirements.
The genie is not going back in the bottle no matter what happens, short of a nuclear war. There is no point even treating the possibility hypothetically.
I've pondered that point, using my monthly car payment and usage as a barometer. I currently spend %5 on Ai compared to my car, I get far more value out of Ai