[echelon]

> As one example, a friend of mine has remarked that large corporations will benefit from the current AI-induced reality of no one being able to afford their own hardware, and keep prices that way to enforce a renters model on computers.

Choose one:

- You spend 30 hours writing a program to manage data for your hobby. You write it on your personal computer.

- You spend one hour generating a program to manage data for your hobby. You have to lease an H200 behind an API to do it.

Which one will you choose?

I know which one I'm choosing.

[anon7725]

I choose A.

I know that many others choose A as well.

A wonderful service known as the web has connected people who choose A with others who choose A and of course with a great many who don’t need to make a choice and benefit from the work of others.

I mourn a world in which few will choose A, because for many to choose B seems to lock us all, tragedy of the commons style, into a worse world.

[account42]

And let's not forget that choosing B is only possible at all because many people chose A before you.

[dgellow]

I’m choosing the first option. I’m not sure which one you chose?

[bigstrat2003]

Option A is fun, whereas option B is miserable. Option A is also cheaper. It's a pretty clear win for option A here.

[sdenton4]

Of course, you can use Option B to write the program, and then run it on your own machine...

[Hugsbox]

You're making a really strong case for option A, whereas B sounds really depressing