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by zero1009 22 days ago
Someone pays for the AI? That's the new human maintainer.
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Who will pay if someone, somewhere is not passionate about it?
You can spin up a model locally and pay yourself. Who will maintain the project if the passionate sole maintainer burns out?
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.
Which model works well?
Qwen 3.6 27b at q6 works decently well on 24GB of VRAM
Hypothetically, maybe. In practice, probably not.
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?
Plenty of important things have been born of passion without necessity.