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by zouhair 52 days ago
The problem I have with it is the price (I am not talking about the money). I don't know if the price is worth it. For example we are literally witnessing the death of the personal computers, it will soon become a rich people's hobby. I don't know how the whole Free Software/Open source will survive that.

At best we will end up not owning nothing, not even the programming skills as everyone will be at the mercy of AI companies for their coding.

We are still in the honey moon phase of AI coding, I have a very pessimistic view of the future.
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marcus_holmes 52 days ago
I'm not sure what LLMs have to do with the death of personal computers? Can you explain, please?
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zouhair 52 days ago
Prices of RAM, GPUs, SSDs and even HDDs are now way out of reach for many people [0]. An SSD I bought 2 years ago at $300 CAD now cost $1K CAD for example and it's not gonna go down any time soon.

[0]: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/perfect-s...

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marcus_holmes 52 days ago
Ah I see, yeah.

This feels like classic economics, though - if the price of something goes up because of demand, then more suppliers enter the market and supply increases.

Also, the AI thing is a bubble, and bubbles burst. Sooner or later all that demand is going to disappear and we'll be oversupplied.

But yes, interesting times indeed.

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