Post #3121844
2026-05-06 00:06 UTC
> New technology has always been horribly inefficient, it’s only once more people see it does it start to get optimized.
Well, I wonder if the frontier ends up looking like supersonic commercial flight (prohibitively expensive so that there wasn't enough of a market for consumers at the actual cost of providing the service): technology that continues to exist but never really gets used, because the alternatives that aren't as good are still much, much cheaper.
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@MagicShel@lemmy.zip 2026-05-06 11:34
Not everyone needs a Lamborghini or Concorde to get where they are going. Work is pushing us to use cloud models and I haven't had time to experiment more than a few limited tests. Qwen 3.6 ~30B Q4 runs pretty well on 36GB of ram. It's a very capable model. It did choke when I tried to connect Cline to it for Java dev. But when I just conversationally ask to write python scripts it works pretty well. I can see a future where a goodly amount of ram and an AI chip can produce the results we are currently getting only from cloud models.