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		zozbot234 34 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Eight years of wanting, three months of building w... "Thousands of dollars of GPU" as a one-time expense (not ongoing token spend) is dirt cheap if it meaningfully improves productivity for a dev. And your shitty laptop can probably run local AI that's good enough for Q&A chat.

lowsong 34 days ago [–]

On a SWE salary maybe. If the baseline cost of doing business is a $5k GPU you've excluded like a quarter of the US working population immediately.

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