[ManlyBread]

I guess 2026 is the last year AI is widely available to anyone who isn't willing to shell out hundreds if not thousands for a monthly subscription. I guess all that's left is to thank all the investors for the free ride LOL

[_delirium]

Hard to square that with how good open-weights models are getting? I'm doing stuff with Qwen3.5-4b that required a frontier hosted model less than a year ago.

[baq]

the problem is you're still a year behind with this approach and it isn't at all clear locally hosted models can keep the gap. need more turboquant-like algorithmic boosts for this to happen.

[brador]

For a second there we felt the future. And now it’s gone.

[andrewinardeer]

Good luck jacking prices up too high with new open models flying around daily.

[baq]

good luck getting mythos/spud quality models open