alt Hacker News> It's not 1990 anymore and my computer has gigabytes, not megabytes of ram.
And these gigabytes get used up really quickly when the LLM goes brrrr. And with this 500% surge in RAM prices, I don't think it's still enough to just buy more.
> It's not 1990 anymore and my computer has gigabytes, not megabytes of ram.
And these gigabytes get used up really quickly when the LLM goes brrrr. And with this 500% surge in RAM prices, I don't think it's still enough to just buy more.
To your point, consumer computer memory has stagnated at 8/16 GiB of RAM for a while.