[gizajob]

This comment is like the antithesis of hacker culture. Can’t tell if being ironic or not.

[echelon]

Lobotomized RTX models are playthings.

People building this stuff are "year of linux on desktop"ing open weights AI. It's a huge opportunity cost - not just for you, but for the open source community at large.

You need to double down on big fat honking models that take multiple H200s to run. That's where the real power lies, and that's where our entire community needs to focus our efforts if we want to keep the delta between frontier and the proletariat small.

The more we build for people and enterprises to run big weights in private clouds, the better. That's the real treat to Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI. Your RTX cards don't make a dent in the death star.

[gizajob]

You could be an IBM executive writing about the Apple I.

[echelon]

There's a world of difference between the Apple I and setting up CUDA drivers and Python.

You're in a small community of hobbyists. Cheap hobbyists who mostly don't pay for the stuff.

It's a bad growth market. It's a bad space to develop products. And it's as distracting to brilliant minds as bitcoin.

It's a suboptimal nerd snipe, and all the effort spent there is effort not being spent building actual frontier capabilities in the open.