alt Hacker NewsI run local models. Your op is absolutely wrong. To get a local LLM is at least a $1500 investment at the cheapest. $5000 if you want usable.
At $1500 that's 75 months of $20/mo Claude which are MUCH better models than you can run locally.
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CamperBob2 • yesterday at 8:34 PM
At $1500 that's 75 months of $20/mo Claude which are MUCH better models than you can run locally.
The point raised by this very article is that you can't depend on that. It's Flowers for Algernon As A Service.
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owebmaster • yesterday at 8:37 PM
This calc is off. Using Claude for a few hours with the $20 plan will hit the limit for a week while the local model can process things 24/7.
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If you already have that $1500 or $5000 setup though..