alt Hacker NewsI don't really have a dog in this race, but "3 hours of streaming" is several orders of magnitude off using a frontier model to write a project like this. Like, 3000 hours of streaming would be closer. Then you're talking about one person consuming the resources for a useless project they'll abandon after a week vs. the resources consumed providing years of entertainment.
How did you get 3000? That's a wildly inaccurate and out-of-this-world figure. I did some preliminary research recently that I'm not fully recalling (would have to look for it), but I had a baseline of something like 9 minutes of streaming video using the equivalent resource (electricity, etc) of just over 5 average prompts. So 3 hours of streaming video is a bit over 1000 prompts.
I can get an OK tool that still goes a good distance in scratching an itch in say ~3-8 prompts, so with 1000 I'm looking at a small app. With 100000... I'm finding it a bit hard to imagine TBH; somewhere in the region of the Bun port to Rust[0] is my likely-off-base-but-not-as-bad-as-yours guess. Heck just consider that there are devs out there running systems with local models that are probably more than half the size of a frontier model, and how that 3000-hours-equivalent cost would've been eating into their pockets in the form of electricity bills.
[0] https://bun.com/blog/bun-in-rust