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New comment by drewnick in "DeepSeek costs OpenCode Go user $1.14/day; dual DGX breaks even in 24 years"

drewnick — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 04:17:11 +0000

The KV cache is a great example. When you own hardware, vllm etc can keep your KV cache warm indefinitely for bursty large token loads vs clouds will purge quite often.

One of my tasks has a very large but very static system prompt and instructions, think something like 128k tokens. On our own hardware, we keep that cached, sprinkle in the 8k of goodness needed for output, and DSV4 Flash 0731 can generate our output at ~50 tps on $10k worth of hardware.

I've been benchmarking vs publics clouds (which are tbf insanely cheap!) and it's basically a break even in 24-36 months if nothing changes, which it could for better or worse.

Combined with the security and stability of internal hardware, to me it's in "no brainer" territory for this workload, even if models don't improve.

Our only "risk" is better cheaper hardware or cloud costs, which given the trajectory is murky at best short of a bust.

New comment by drewnick in "DeepSeek costs OpenCode Go user $1.14/day; dual DGX breaks even in 24 years"

drewnick — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 03:48:42 +0000

AMD AI Halo machines are similar cost and RAM. I'm in the market and comparing both. The new 192GB AMD box will be tempting but I'm leaning 2xDGX's for now.

New comment by drewnick in "DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813"

drewnick — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 04:08:34 +0000

+1 I have found extremely reliable systems require a mix of deterministic "adapters" is a good word for agents to actually get through the workflows I've created. I'm still amazed that it can work with both those and some "intuition" to bend the rules around the adapters if prompted.

New comment by drewnick in "Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index"

drewnick — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:32:07 +0000

An hour in, I've been running four terminals full bore on my $20/mo Grok sub and I'm at 9% for the week. Codex or Claude would easily have hit 5-hour or weekly limits.

New comment by drewnick in "Someone is running mass vulnerability scans, spoofing AI bots like ClaudeBot"

drewnick — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:54:15 +0000

Think about how many webmaster and business owners' egos are stroked by all the traffic they are getting, when in actuality they are often just serving thousands of bots.

New comment by drewnick in "After the AI Crash"

drewnick — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 15:27:36 +0000

I moved one of our daily workflows over to Kimi K3 on Fireworks. It replaces two sales assistant positions, and was about $50/day for 14 million tokens total (in/out). They surely are not subsidizing this price as it is just inference only and other providers are even less money.

New comment by drewnick in "John C. Dvorak has died"

drewnick — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 21:26:06 +0000

Thank you for giving us this nuance.

New comment by drewnick in "OpenRouter raises $113M Series B"

drewnick — Sun, 31 May 2026 01:21:40 +0000

Wow, this is refreshing DX compared to iterating all messages like we did back in '24.

New comment by drewnick in "Claude Opus 4.8"

drewnick — Thu, 28 May 2026 18:53:50 +0000

While all these models are nondeterministic a feature bump is still necessary as the same input can have wildly different output on a new model. For API users being able to pin a model is a necessity.

New comment by drewnick in "Vercel April 2026 security incident"

drewnick — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 19:54:08 +0000

Great point on the playing with Linux growing up, it's second nature to me now.

I am always feeling like I'm doing something wrong running bare metal based on modern advice, but it's low latency, simple, and reliable.

Probably because I've been using linux since Slackware in the 90s so it's second nature. And now with the CLI-based coding tools, I have a co-sysadmin to help me keep things tidy and secure. It's great and I highly recommend more people try it.

New comment by drewnick in "Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner"

drewnick — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 21:13:21 +0000

The problem is a lot of this glue is proprietary by design at the various cloud services. I realize there are open source and alternative abstractions for a lot of of the same services, but there’s still quite a bit of glue if you’re on AWS, for example, and looking to move to bare metal.

But maybe I’m just thinking of the current capabilities of agents, and if we fast forward a couple years, even removing these abstractions or migrating will be very low friction.

New comment by drewnick in "Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner"

drewnick — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 21:10:31 +0000

I too, am bravely using Claude for more DevOps. I run all of my virtual machines on proxmox atop bare metal servers I own and I’m just blown away at how quickly Claude can optimize and set up entire new networks across all of these machines. Truly feels like a coworker or well paid sysadmin.

New comment by drewnick in "The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?"

drewnick — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 03:22:21 +0000

Agree. If you've ever spent serious time in the country with farmers, the level of ingenuity is impressive among many, and they benefit from it greatly. As the grandson of depression farmers, I noticed intelligence mattered a lot, even if just for survival.

New comment by drewnick in "Claude Opus 4.7"

drewnick — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:40:54 +0000

Hasn't Opus 4.5 been famously consistent while 4.6 was floating all over the place?

New comment by drewnick in "Claude Opus 4.7"

drewnick — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:32:35 +0000

I think this is more about which model you steer your coding harness to. You can also self-host a UI in front of multiple models, then you own the chat history.

New comment by drewnick in "OpenAI's fall from grace as investors race to Anthropic"

drewnick — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 03:40:51 +0000

Same, mostly. However today in particular Claude can't do front-end development with any competence. Never seen this before. I think the rumor is they are rolling out a new model and have to divide their infra across the new model vs the current model.

New comment by drewnick in "The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode"

drewnick — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:48:32 +0000

You can use Claude Code with API mode (not a sub)

New comment by drewnick in "Google's insecure-by-default API keys and 30h billing lag cost my startup $15k"

drewnick — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 23:01:02 +0000

You should definitely log in to Google Cloud Console and roll all the keys you see in there if you're unsure. I just did the same thing after I realized I had a lot of surface area with these keys.

New comment by drewnick in "Overall, the colorectal cancer story is encouraging"

drewnick — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 04:11:12 +0000

My bloody stool started slow and took some time off but came back and I had a large polyp. Watch this very closely, but don't panic.

New comment by drewnick in "Overall, the colorectal cancer story is encouraging"

drewnick — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 04:08:52 +0000

Blood in the stool, at age 41. Benign but a VERY large polyp so I have a followup soon. If you have an instinct to get tested, especially if you have any evidence, do it. My doc fought me to NOT get tested but I persisted. The embarrassment factor is a thing, but we have to get over it!