I think you can get down to around 8 if you are signed up for an interruptible load, or a dedicated off peak load, depending on the company, but yeah, standard rates aren't that low.

I'm inclined to think the number is closer to the higher end, at least in the US. There's still a lot of areas where the charging infrastructure is awful, and if you live in an apartment or are traveling, that's an important consideration. Another is the insurance premium cost, due to the expense of replacing batteries.

I imagine these issues will continue to be less challenging for people over time, as more second hand batteries, recycling and infrastructure continues to expand. Even at current gas prices, though, it didn't make financial sense for my family when we traded in a car two months back.

We have already seen tech workers at big name companies get whiplash from "leaderboards showing people using the most tokens!" as a good thing one month to being pressured to using fewer tokens a month later.

Turns out you can fuck up self hosting too.

Look at any computer in a big company. It isn't the fastest on the market, nor will it have the most RAM or largest monitor or fanciest keyboard. It is good enough at a good enough price point. Once it becomes possible and cheaper to host your own good enough open weight models, with all the benefits of keeping data internal to the company, then the big providers are cooked, so to speak.

There were plenty of even less useful flags, but that one stood out to me for some reason.

"Checklist security" has been a thing for ages.

You're just using it as a proxy for people owning homes. It's not a given that the two numbers are always opposed.

Race might be a decent analogue to the difference between human actors and sentient AI, but I suspect work animals (plow horses, etc) would be a better analogy.

The comparison I've seen elsewhere is the old console systems with separate cartridges for games... I wouldn't want to be regularly swapping them, but if they came out in a form factor that didn't require me to shell out multiple-4 digit figures in upgrades just to use the next model, it'd easily be worth it for me.

I've already got a home lab, and it's specced to last, minus the GPU. I picked up a separate system for local llm experimentation, but I'm not likely to be upgrading it again. The value add is incredibly small compared to the cost. The real benefits are data privacy and never worrying about rate limits, and there's a price point beyond which an incremental improvement to the model doesn't justify upgrading the system.

Same effect, a difference with only a nominal distinction.

I'm pretty sure "built to last" was only ever more true in specific contexts, and wasn't particularly more true than today.

The point they were making was that the most successful open models- those coming out of China- are made my companies that are using those open models to get exposure in Western markets. The goal is to undercut the Western dominant players, not out of any particular "open source" philosophy, so it wouldn't be wise to expect them to continue providing open models long term.