[a_e_k]

Analogous to that, this is something that I'd been wondering about with respect to hardware prices as silicon is reallocated from consumers to data centers: how am I to make heavy use of frontier (edit: i.e., cloud/data center-provided) AI models if I can't easily buy a machine worth using it on?

[junga]

> how am I to make heavy use of frontier AI models if I can't easily buy a machine worth using it on?

You are not supposed to run them locally but to pay for them running somewhere else.

[a_e_k]

Yes, I get that and meant to imply it with "frontier". But my question was more about how my biggest uses by far of data center-provided AI in terms of tokens have been in things like experimenting with agentic coding on my desktops. If I'm just tapping away at my phone with some questions in a chat window, my AI needs are much lower. Compete with me for the HW resources that I need to make full use of your data center-provided AI supply, and I'll just drop my demand accordingly.

(I know, I know... the answer is probably that they expect me to just move my software development to the cloud, too. Joy!)