alt Hacker NewsI think it would be very hard to convince someone to pay $100/mo to go back to Claude if they have a local model up and running, particularly now that model improvement has basically been stalled for the last 6 months. It’s so easy to set it up for yourself now too with things like LM studio. That said, there will always be unsophisticated users who can’t figure it out, so there will always be someone there to pay.
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Scoundreller • today at 3:50 PM
The third category are the occasional users that won’t have the hardware and won’t stomach a monthly fee for “unlimited” but are happy to pay-per-use.
I’d think the volume for that category would be low but LLMs aren’t just for coding.
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The person I was replying to specifically said that the Claude will "encode more knowledge" and that their problem was that they didn't like talking to Claude. It sounds like they think that Claude is at least slightly more functional. And the "not liking talking to it" is probably fixable. Someone for whom a local model works, and for whom the economics make sense, should absolutely run a local model and I wouldn't try to convince them otherwise. I'm sure it's the right choice for a lot of people. But not liking the personality of Claude is probably not a great reason on its own, given the minuscule amount of effort it takes to fix.