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Running local models is good now

994 points • by jfb • yesterday at 2:36 PM • 423 comments • view on HN

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Rekindle8090 • yesterday at 5:42 PM

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Lapsa • yesterday at 7:19 PM

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iluvcommunism • yesterday at 3:15 PM

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fg137 • yesterday at 4:02 PM

> I have a 2022 M2 Mac with 64 GB RAM

I closed the article after that.

The author has no idea what a privilege it is to have a machine like that for personal use, and how 99% of the population are not going to afford a setup like that.

Just some back-of-the-envelope maths will tell you that a $20/month Claude subscription makes much more sense financially.

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