One can always measure whatever they wonder about. It doesn't mean the measure will be trustworthy and that anything built on it won't be at best not worst than wet finger judgement.

God damn¹, Louis XIV’s country that inspired La société du spectacle to Guy Debord is actually a great place to make a career as a courtesan, who would have guess.

Guillotine images in streets are also on the rise: I can no longer make the smallest road trip without seeing some plastered all around.

Looks like neither the wanna shine as elite in the bonnes gens side nor the drive me to unsustainable pauperized state in the crowd can refrain from their extreme propensities.

¹ https://www.capmemo.fr/sciences-humaines/983-le-mariage-de-f...

² https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Society_of_the_Spectacle

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK599618/

Thus starting with learning wow meditation seems an important first step.

For all the rest, it's already going to be more issues on how to prioritize getting the ressources mapped where seems to fit to reach the goals.

Top 10% of global earners (~800M people) can afford a $2,000 device without major financial strain.

Top 25% (~2B people) could afford it with some budget adjustments.

Bottom 50% (~4B people) would find it prohibitively expensive.

So for a SV top income, maybe that might look more like the weekly pet brushing budget, but for most people out there this is not that much of a no-brainer.

Not much about "smartness", but code can by far outlast many "product" sold on top of it, so it can make sense to polish them more than the ready to throw gift paper.

People will certainly buy nice gift paper wrapping cheap crap music toy of the day. But they will also value differently access to a beautiful handcrafted musical instrument. On the other hands, people who don’t even play any music won’t be able to assess any musical appliance.

Sure, that might have been the one chance in a life time to easy big money. Or just a path to financial big troubles.

I'm not familiar with Pi, and not sure which kind of container you are referring to. Something mainstream like docker, or more classic like a BSD jail?

I started to experiment with locale LLMs, through ollama and Lemonade. Enough to throw simple prompts with code excerpts and get small scope code refactors. Though I still struggled to make them work with external tools, like my IDE, so they can be leveraged on to an agentic level with access to a full repository.

That's mainly for work, as they push for using LLMs, though with the new copilote license they provide it doesn't take me even a week to burn the whole token credit.

The tool can be useful, but in my experience without heavy guard rails and loops over tests. I suspect late models to also burn many token into rabbit hole of nonsense hypothesis, instead of doing straight forward correct implemention as you would expect from any entity with such a huge cumulated resources eaten and experimental playground to leverage on. Maybe incentives don't help model provider to minimize sold token, maybe it's just so hard to tame the beast all these bright minds with virtually infinite resources are not good enough.

Anyway, sorry for digression, but I would be extremely interested with a step by step tutorial to make a local LLM work in agentic level, including which kind of hardware is required to make it work properly.