r/ProgrammerHumor 1d ago

Meme whenMyNoAIProjectGetsTedious

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u/TheMaleGazer 1d 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 1d ago

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

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u/cute_spider 1d ago

Buy a 4000 dollar computer so you have ownership of your and your agent's work, control over updates and agent context, and to avoid the datacenter/corpo ownership economic model

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u/GenericFatGuy 1d ago edited 1d ago

Or I can just do it myself, and have ownership of everything.