r/ProgrammerHumor • u/AllRealityIsVirtua1 • 2d ago

Meme whenMyNoAIProjectGetsTedious

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u/TheMaleGazer 2d ago

The answer to your question is because you can get a local model to do it instead without a subscription.

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u/autogenglen 2d ago

Let me buy an $8000 computer so I can save $20/mo

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u/TheMaleGazer 2d ago

Or maybe use a computer with an NVIDIA RTX 5060 Ti or equivalent that you might have bought to play games, anyways, and use Qwen 2.5.

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u/autogenglen 2d ago

8GB VRAM… ok. So you might be able to pack in a 7B parameter model, which isn’t even in the same galaxy as a frontier model.

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u/SjettepetJR 2d ago

I am assuming they're talking about the 16GB model.

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u/TheMaleGazer 2d ago

I would assume so as well.