[cheeze]

I love Framework but it's still not enough IMO. My time is the most valuable thing, and a subscription to $paid_llm_of_choice is _cheap_ relative to my time spent working.

In my experience, something Llama 3.3 works really well for smaller tasks. For "I'm lazy and want to provide minimal prompting for you to build a tool similar to what is in this software package already", paid LLMs are king.

If anything, I think the best approach for free LLMs would be to run using rented GPU capacity. I feel bad knowing that I have a 4070ti super that sits idle for 95% of the time. I'd rather share an a1000 with bunch of folks and have that run at close to max utilization.

[generic92034]

> and a subscription to $paid_llm_of_choice is _cheap_ relative to my time spent working.

In the mid to long term the question is, is the subscription covering the costs of the LLM provider. Current costs might not be stable for long.

[RugnirViking]

That is, in every sense of the term, their problem.

I will switch to whatever is best for me at a good price, and if thats not sustainable then I'll be fine too; I was a developer before these existed at all, and local models only help from there.