[weitendorf]

> In reality you could host the entire thing for well under $50k/year in hardware

I could pay Anthropic $400 to write more code than you have in your entire lifetime.

Sure, you're able to operate a website acting as essentially the most important and highest volume venue for sharing academic research in the world, but come on, why couldn't I just ask Claude Code or some web developer in a foreign country to do the same thing?