I approve of this, but in your place I'd wait for hardware to become cheaper when the bubble blows over. I have a i9-10900, and bought an M.2 SSD and 64GB of RAM in july for it, and get useful results with Qwen3-30B-A3B (some 4-bit quant from unsloth running on llama.cpp).
It's much slower than an online service (~5-10 t/s), and lower quality, but it still offers me value for my use cases (many small prototypes and tests).
In the mean time, check out LLM service prices on https://artificialanalysis.ai/ Open source ones are cheap! Lower on the homepage there's a Cost Efficiency section with a Cost vs Intelligence chart.
I have a 9070 XT (16 GB VRAM) and it is fast with deepseek-r1:14B but I didn't know about that Qwen model. Most of the 'better' models will crash for lack of RAM.
Perhaps JetBrains should reconsider AppCode, since Xcode only got this crappy recently. Apparently they didn't get the market share they had hoped for.
It gets exponentially more crappy every time, which creates an impression that it only got crappy recently. I remember it doing this since 2010. The usual counter is to stay on the same version until either of you is literally dead.
Although I didn’t find AppCode more useful for my simple tasks. If anything, it felt android-ish in ux, if you know what I mean.
I've always felt like it was slow and annoying to use personally. At least coming from the IntelliJ world, maybe if you were only in Xcode it was pretty decent until recently.
Xcode has been slow, messy, buggy and all around atrocious to use since day one. Being forced to migrate from MPW and Code Warrior to this utter piece of garbage has actually pushed me to web development.
Actually not tangential but very relevant here. In the technique i mention you have to physically focus your eyes for the mind to focus its attention there.
In traditional Martial Arts it is said; "Wherever the Eyes go, the Mind follows" and the highest stage is "When the Body becomes all eyes" i.e. an all-encompassing awareness. Philip Zarrilli wrote a book with the above name on the South-Indian Martial Art of Kalarippayattu - https://archive.org/details/when-the-body-becomes-all-eyes-p... It is not a book of techniques but deals with traditional philosophies/principles/practices which can be learnt from for use with any sport.
When Snowden was escaping capture form the West, err, I mean, US, we, the US, err, the Obama admin, wanted to know which plane he was in to see of they could have it "diverted".
Also, don't pretend to "go hiking" along the Iranian border...
Or you can recognise that ‘Meta’ isn’t a conscious entity, and that it’s perfectly likely that there are some people over there doing amazing open-source work, and different people over there making ethically dubious decisions when building their LLMs.
I’ve worked for dozens of organisations in my career. Large and small, competent and not. Usually not.
In that time did I make some ‘ethically correct’ choice to leave an enormous organisation because some other part of that organisation did something that wasn’t ethically perfect?
Never. Not one time.
And I’m an ethical person. I consider this stuff deeply. Here I am bothering to have this conversation with you.
But, what, every person who has an interesting job doing good things — remember, we’re talking about engineers developing a new audio codec — so those people who have interesting jobs doing good things with a great team are expected to look over there to some distant part of the org, to teams they’re barely aware of, let alone have spoken to, and they’re expected to quit their jobs because of the ‘ethically dubious’ stuff going on over there?
Sorry. Unrealistic, idealistic bullshit. I’ve never done it and neither have you.
Not the person you're responding to, but I guess I would just have to flip that back around and say really this is bullshit to be honest.
I guess I don't really feel that you can just say you're an ethical person and have it absolve yourself of impact of your work.
It doesn't seem a stretch to say that the goals of meta are propagated by the things meta focuses work on, and even if one isn't on the forefront of stealing data, intruding on privacy, or maximizing engagement at all costs, doesn't mean nothing they do will play a part in those teams.
At the end of the day, even accounting at the orphan crushing factory plays a part in the orphan crushing machine.
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