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an0maloustoday at 3:45 PM1 replyview on HN

It's more of a pipeline than a back-and-forth. New abilities happen in the cloud first because they require specialized, higher capacity resources and then move towards being local as the resource usage gets optimized.


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dylan604today at 7:04 PM

Outside insane GPU appliances, I really see cloud based things as a lock-in to subscription based offerings. The fallacy of always using the latest code isn't worth never ending subscription fees. I'll install it locally. I'll keep my data locally. I don't need to wait for things to upload/download. If there's an update that feels worthy, I'll purchased and install locally.