[supern0va]

>They never are. Ever.

And even when they are: they sure seem to bet against Moore's Law or just the general tendency for things to get better/efficient over time.

It's frankly remarkable how capable the models have become that we can run locally now on a decent laptop.

The same thing happened with image generation. I've had arguments with people that image generators are killing the environment, but I can do it in 20-30 seconds on my GPU. No one bats an eyelash when I play 20-30 minutes or even hours of a video game on my GPU, but the images are burning down the planet.

It's slightly maddening.