Seconding the "Gee, must be nice to be able to set money on fire" sentiment. Personally, haven't quite converged on a config where I can seem to get the tooling successfully talking to my locally hosted models, and running, albeit slowly. Yet. Damn well not using other people's money to subsidize some cloud provider's build out. So no, I suppose I don't have your problem. I also don't know if I'll ultimately stick with the tooling. It's so damn different from how I'm used to dealing with things, I'm not entirely sure that I'll ever use most LLM's as anything but boilerplate generators, summarizers, or delvers into the latent space of humanity to bring back breadcrumbs, and validate understanding/analyze/cross-reference, etc. For everything else, there's grep.
Fair enough - with that said - be mindful of the times. I am pretty deeply involved in Seattle's startup scenes and a notable startup recently laid off 35% of its engineers, and may lay off more, specifically because the engineering team was hesitant to adopt AI. In another case, a Ex-IPOd Seattle founder just hired two of my 21–22-year-old friends who are very AI native - they use Pane every day for their dev. The world is changing.
Aye, understood. Not like I'm not trying it. I'm also being mindful of it's limitations though. GIGO applies, and we're going to be making a lot more garbage a lot faster. Bullshit Asymmetry Principle and all
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Seconding the "Gee, must be nice to be able to set money on fire" sentiment. Personally, haven't quite converged on a config where I can seem to get the tooling successfully talking to my locally hosted models, and running, albeit slowly. Yet. Damn well not using other people's money to subsidize some cloud provider's build out. So no, I suppose I don't have your problem. I also don't know if I'll ultimately stick with the tooling. It's so damn different from how I'm used to dealing with things, I'm not entirely sure that I'll ever use most LLM's as anything but boilerplate generators, summarizers, or delvers into the latent space of humanity to bring back breadcrumbs, and validate understanding/analyze/cross-reference, etc. For everything else, there's grep.
Fair enough - with that said - be mindful of the times. I am pretty deeply involved in Seattle's startup scenes and a notable startup recently laid off 35% of its engineers, and may lay off more, specifically because the engineering team was hesitant to adopt AI. In another case, a Ex-IPOd Seattle founder just hired two of my 21–22-year-old friends who are very AI native - they use Pane every day for their dev. The world is changing.
Aye, understood. Not like I'm not trying it. I'm also being mindful of it's limitations though. GIGO applies, and we're going to be making a lot more garbage a lot faster. Bullshit Asymmetry Principle and all