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should i dump like 50k into a local LLM setup

we're gonna get fucking rugged on this man it's actually cra...
Metal Opaque Fanboi
  12/17/25
https://youtu.be/t_hh2-KG6Bw?si=Msowi7NeNeCH3LhX
well-lubricated mind-boggling rigpig twinkling uncleanness
  12/17/25
that shit probably sucks though local setups are pointles...
Metal Opaque Fanboi
  12/17/25
You can't get that much VRAM for $50k
well-lubricated mind-boggling rigpig twinkling uncleanness
  12/17/25
no lol there is still a huge disparity in the speed/quality ...
Fragrant haunting step-uncle's house
  12/17/25
(no links)
well-lubricated mind-boggling rigpig twinkling uncleanness
  12/17/25
what are you Doing with your Local Models, champ? go ahead, ...
Fragrant haunting step-uncle's house
  12/17/25
Once in a while I argue with Gemma 27b about antitrust law
well-lubricated mind-boggling rigpig twinkling uncleanness
  12/17/25
...
Fragrant haunting step-uncle's house
  12/17/25
Real-time infrared target acquisition & control
Emerald passionate school cafeteria boistinker
  12/17/25
you don't need frontier models for specialized use cases lik...
Fragrant haunting step-uncle's house
  12/17/25
For coding there's no reason to do it locally. You need extr...
well-lubricated mind-boggling rigpig twinkling uncleanness
  12/17/25
they are going to keep neutering frontier models until the o...
Metal Opaque Fanboi
  12/17/25
I think there's going to be some big money in decommissionin...
Emerald passionate school cafeteria boistinker
  12/17/25
interesting
Metal Opaque Fanboi
  12/17/25
Nope. The old shit that's getting decommissioned will be str...
well-lubricated mind-boggling rigpig twinkling uncleanness
  12/17/25
Jfc kikes 110 will happen sooner than you think.
Emerald passionate school cafeteria boistinker
  12/17/25
They can't stop China from releasing optimized-as-fuck OSS m...
well-lubricated mind-boggling rigpig twinkling uncleanness
  12/17/25
This might actually be the thing to get me to kms
Canary theater stage quadroon
  12/17/25
no
galvanic crackhouse azn
  12/17/25
for the most part you're not going to get Biglaw out of an L...
Adventurous private investor meetinghouse
  12/17/25
seems unlikely that llms can do pure math (they can and scor...
exciting brunch psychic
  12/17/25
...
misanthropic carmine love of her life knife
  12/17/25
based
citrine trailer park wagecucks
  12/17/25
gotta spend even more than he did to get an actually useful ...
Metal Opaque Fanboi
  12/17/25


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Date: December 17th, 2025 1:29 PM
Author: Metal Opaque Fanboi

we're gonna get fucking rugged on this man it's actually crazy

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811364&forum_id=2/#49516827)



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Date: December 17th, 2025 1:30 PM
Author: well-lubricated mind-boggling rigpig twinkling uncleanness

https://youtu.be/t_hh2-KG6Bw?si=Msowi7NeNeCH3LhX

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811364&forum_id=2/#49516833)



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Date: December 17th, 2025 1:32 PM
Author: Metal Opaque Fanboi

that shit probably sucks though

local setups are pointless if you have to wait 60 seconds for it to do anything

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811364&forum_id=2/#49516838)



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Date: December 17th, 2025 1:33 PM
Author: well-lubricated mind-boggling rigpig twinkling uncleanness

You can't get that much VRAM for $50k

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811364&forum_id=2/#49516843)



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Date: December 17th, 2025 1:33 PM
Author: Fragrant haunting step-uncle's house

no lol there is still a huge disparity in the speed/quality of frontier models vs what is able to be self hosted. it's just the new thing for nerds to blow massive amounts of $$$ on to feel cool

self hosted llms are great for niche purposes (like they can basically solve the problem of Searching your OS being Awful), but those are going to be so small you won't need much to run them.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811364&forum_id=2/#49516844)



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Date: December 17th, 2025 1:33 PM
Author: well-lubricated mind-boggling rigpig twinkling uncleanness

(no links)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811364&forum_id=2/#49516846)



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Date: December 17th, 2025 1:35 PM
Author: Fragrant haunting step-uncle's house

what are you Doing with your Local Models, champ? go ahead, sell me

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811364&forum_id=2/#49516852)



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Date: December 17th, 2025 1:36 PM
Author: well-lubricated mind-boggling rigpig twinkling uncleanness

Once in a while I argue with Gemma 27b about antitrust law

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811364&forum_id=2/#49516859)



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Date: December 17th, 2025 1:45 PM
Author: Fragrant haunting step-uncle's house



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811364&forum_id=2/#49516911)



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Date: December 17th, 2025 1:37 PM
Author: Emerald passionate school cafeteria boistinker

Real-time infrared target acquisition & control

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811364&forum_id=2/#49516863)



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Date: December 17th, 2025 1:57 PM
Author: Fragrant haunting step-uncle's house

you don't need frontier models for specialized use cases like that though, there's already been crazy progress with stuff like qwen3-vl. I'm talking about the dweebs trying to run 500b-1T parameter models at 30 tokens/s or whatever locally just to do the same shit they would use chatgpt for

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811364&forum_id=2/#49516951)



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Date: December 17th, 2025 2:06 PM
Author: well-lubricated mind-boggling rigpig twinkling uncleanness

For coding there's no reason to do it locally. You need extra RAM just for the long ass context windows coding requires.

For anything else there are good reasons to keep it off the cloud and not have it linked to your credit card

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811364&forum_id=2/#49516971)



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Date: December 17th, 2025 1:38 PM
Author: Metal Opaque Fanboi

they are going to keep neutering frontier models until the only thing they are able to do is blurt out that white people are evil and make porn videos and boomer bait AI slop

imo the best argument against investing in a local setup is that hardware will keep getting better - but now that commercial hardware access is getting rugpulled, i'm starting to seriously worry

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811364&forum_id=2/#49516874)



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Date: December 17th, 2025 1:41 PM
Author: Emerald passionate school cafeteria boistinker

I think there's going to be some big money in decommissioning & recycling old equipment at data centers. Many contracts require them to literally shred the equipment they lease, rather than resell it. Huge black market opportunity.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811364&forum_id=2/#49516891)



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Date: December 17th, 2025 1:43 PM
Author: Metal Opaque Fanboi

interesting

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811364&forum_id=2/#49516904)



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Date: December 17th, 2025 2:03 PM
Author: well-lubricated mind-boggling rigpig twinkling uncleanness

Nope. The old shit that's getting decommissioned will be stripped for VRAM, and the new stuff is all HBM and not suitable for home use. We'll be buying off-brand recycled GPUs on AliExpress if we're lucky

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811364&forum_id=2/#49516963)



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Date: December 17th, 2025 2:10 PM
Author: Emerald passionate school cafeteria boistinker

Jfc kikes

110 will happen sooner than you think.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811364&forum_id=2/#49516983)



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Date: December 17th, 2025 1:41 PM
Author: well-lubricated mind-boggling rigpig twinkling uncleanness

They can't stop China from releasing optimized-as-fuck OSS models that require 30% less compute. However China is just as fucked as we are when it comes to supply of basic PC components. Maybe more so.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811364&forum_id=2/#49516892)



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Date: December 17th, 2025 1:37 PM
Author: Canary theater stage quadroon

This might actually be the thing to get me to kms

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811364&forum_id=2/#49516865)



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Date: December 17th, 2025 1:39 PM
Author: galvanic crackhouse azn

no

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811364&forum_id=2/#49516882)



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Date: December 17th, 2025 1:41 PM
Author: Adventurous private investor meetinghouse

for the most part you're not going to get Biglaw out of an LLM unless it's NYU Tax and you already came from a decent law school

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811364&forum_id=2/#49516887)



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Date: December 17th, 2025 2:12 PM
Author: exciting brunch psychic

seems unlikely that llms can do pure math (they can and score better on many metrics than most experts) but not Biglaw considering pure math and theoretical physics is exponentially more difficult. I think you guys are just pretending it can't for ego purposes. Are you sure you guys aren't just expecting some perfect output in one prompt or something instead of using it to make several different processes and tasks much easier in a way that compounds to basically not having to try anymore?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811364&forum_id=2/#49516989)



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Date: December 17th, 2025 1:42 PM
Author: misanthropic carmine love of her life knife



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811364&forum_id=2/#49516899)



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Date: December 17th, 2025 2:01 PM
Author: citrine trailer park wagecucks

based

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811364&forum_id=2/#49516957)



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Date: December 17th, 2025 2:09 PM
Author: Metal Opaque Fanboi

gotta spend even more than he did to get an actually useful setup though

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811364&forum_id=2/#49516976)