The defense industry lost the ability to make weapons when crisis hit. The same pattern is eroding software engineering skills. The timelines are identical.
The problem I’ve got is that you all have a god of the gaps, the conversation I was having 3 years ago was different to 2 years ago was different to 1 year ago
And I guess the problem I have with you, is that you seem to think that you can get results with 16GB, competitive with models that run on a Blackwell 6000 with 96GB, while ignoring the fact that the vast majority of the people in the world are running GPUs with 4 to 8 GB of VRAM, if they even have access to GPUs, at all.
That’s the gap. Most people don’t have the kind of money you think they do, and even those who do have some money, they will never achieve the same results as with cloud models, because if there’s a state of the art optimization that makes models 10 times smaller, cloud models will become 10 times bigger with that advantage. It’s pretty simple.
And I guess the problem I have with you, is that you seem to think that you can get results with 16GB, competitive with models that run on a Blackwell 6000 with 96GB, while ignoring the fact that the vast majority of the people in the world are running GPUs with 4 to 8 GB of VRAM, if they even have access to GPUs, at all.
That’s the gap. Most people don’t have the kind of money you think they do, and even those who do have some money, they will never achieve the same results as with cloud models, because if there’s a state of the art optimization that makes models 10 times smaller, cloud models will become 10 times bigger with that advantage. It’s pretty simple.