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by nicoburns 16 days ago
> If prices keep going up, watch for companies to exit frontier models and go to local llama.cpp instances for 6-month-ago SOTA, with the flex of being housed within the office - no more privacy leakage, no more price gouging.

That or just hiring people to do the work! I hear rumours that this is already starting to happen in some places (perhaps those that were a little overzealous with AI-hype driven layoffs).

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Fool me once… I think applying for jobs at a company that only within the last 12 months shed thousands of people “because of AI” should be seen as laughable, and employees collectively rejecting to work there should be seen as the norm