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Grombobuloustoday at 3:08 PM1 replyview on HN

I think the key there is “hardware you already own.”

If you own a graphics card you bought for gaming or a laptop you bought for doing schoolwork there is $0 in cost of local AI tokens, because 100% of the cost was assigned to doing other things.


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datadrivenangeltoday at 5:00 PM

It's bad accounting to only look at marginal cost and ignore depreciating hardware asset costs.