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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...
citrine new version
  12/17/25
https://youtu.be/t_hh2-KG6Bw?si=Msowi7NeNeCH3LhX
Tan Cerebral Meetinghouse
  12/17/25
that shit probably sucks though local setups are pointles...
citrine new version
  12/17/25
You can't get that much VRAM for $50k
Tan Cerebral Meetinghouse
  12/17/25
no lol there is still a huge disparity in the speed/quality ...
spruce den regret
  12/17/25
(no links)
Tan Cerebral Meetinghouse
  12/17/25
what are you Doing with your Local Models, champ? go ahead, ...
spruce den regret
  12/17/25
Once in a while I argue with Gemma 27b about antitrust law
Tan Cerebral Meetinghouse
  12/17/25
...
spruce den regret
  12/17/25
Real-time infrared target acquisition & control
Adventurous learning disabled internal respiration police squad
  12/17/25
you don't need frontier models for specialized use cases lik...
spruce den regret
  12/17/25
For coding there's no reason to do it locally. You need extr...
Tan Cerebral Meetinghouse
  12/17/25
they are going to keep neutering frontier models until the o...
citrine new version
  12/17/25
I think there's going to be some big money in decommissionin...
Adventurous learning disabled internal respiration police squad
  12/17/25
interesting
citrine new version
  12/17/25
Nope. The old shit that's getting decommissioned will be str...
Tan Cerebral Meetinghouse
  12/17/25
Jfc kikes 110 will happen sooner than you think.
Adventurous learning disabled internal respiration police squad
  12/17/25
They can't stop China from releasing optimized-as-fuck OSS m...
Tan Cerebral Meetinghouse
  12/17/25
This might actually be the thing to get me to kms
frisky offensive church building mental disorder
  12/17/25
no
Azure misunderstood site
  12/17/25
for the most part you're not going to get Biglaw out of an L...
Motley Crackhouse Knife
  12/17/25
seems unlikely that llms can do pure math (they can and scor...
Iridescent locus
  12/17/25
...
alcoholic soul-stirring garrison
  12/17/25
based
floppy mischievous tanning salon stain
  12/17/25
gotta spend even more than he did to get an actually useful ...
citrine new version
  12/17/25


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Date: December 17th, 2025 1:29 PM
Author: citrine new version

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: Tan Cerebral Meetinghouse

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: citrine new version

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: Tan Cerebral Meetinghouse

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: spruce den regret

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: Tan Cerebral Meetinghouse

(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: spruce den regret

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: Tan Cerebral Meetinghouse

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: spruce den regret



(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: Adventurous learning disabled internal respiration police squad

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: spruce den regret

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: Tan Cerebral Meetinghouse

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: citrine new version

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: Adventurous learning disabled internal respiration police squad

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: citrine new version

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: Tan Cerebral Meetinghouse

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: Adventurous learning disabled internal respiration police squad

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: Tan Cerebral Meetinghouse

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: frisky offensive church building mental disorder

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: Azure misunderstood site

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: Motley Crackhouse Knife

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: Iridescent locus

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: alcoholic soul-stirring garrison



(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: floppy mischievous tanning salon stain

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: citrine new version

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)