[minimaxir]

Why?

[all2]

Time-cost for machines instead of willing knowledgeable humans. The former requires money, the latter requires passion.

Arguably, passion for a project is without price.

[zero1009]

Someone pays for the AI? That's the new human maintainer.

[nozzlegear]

Who will pay if someone, somewhere is not passionate about it?

[throw1234567891]

You can spin up a model locally and pay yourself. Who will maintain the project if the passionate sole maintainer burns out?

[nozzlegear]

I strictly use only local models, so I agree, but the project was built with Fable so my argument hinges on the assumption that the maintainer is going to continue using Fable and needs to pay for it.

[inigyou]

Which model works well?

[all2]

Qwen 3.6 27b at q6 works decently well on 24GB of VRAM

[bloppe]

Hypothetically, maybe. In practice, probably not.

[CookieCrisp]

If it's valuable enough to someone, and it isn't keeping up, someone will pay. If it's not valuable enough for someone to pay, then who cares?

[jpfromlondon]

Plenty of important things have been born of passion without necessity.

[jack_pp]

Humans have time-cost too, much higher than machines. Considering SOTA right now, for a project like this it would make more sense for the community to contribute and verify tests, sponsor updates with $.

[wild_pointer]

Trust