alt Hacker NewsI would love nothing more than ditching Claude for a local solution tomorrow. But it doesn't exist today, so it is what it is - you gotta keep up with the joneses.
Maybe in 5 years we'll have an open weights model that is in the "good enough" category that I can run on a RTX 9000 for 15k dollars or whatever.
I don't want to get too much into the details but I don't work in or for the Valley and I don't think I'll ever be able to afford that sort of expenditure on computing. A down payment on a car, or a vital medical procedure? Sure. I'm probably not alone here.