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You have a good point that I missed about pricing that will keep many hobbyists away who can't run something like Qwen Code locally. I don't think the models have gotten worse although I don't have data to back that up, but what I do know is a lot of devs in the private sector I know have gotten onboard recently and they had positive experiences with using it for coding tasks.
So given that it is more likely to me that opinion would soften even here. Most people just don't care that much about the ethical or philosophical problems of LLMs and pragmatism for solving problems they care about will win out.
Thanks for responding. It's good to get different people's opinion about it.
Running stuff locally is really cool, I've messed about with it. I think the tech is super interesting, it's just a shame about all the downsides in the way it's used right now. Unfortunately what I can run is very limited, my most powerful machine has a 4070 GPU with 12GB of VRAM. The lack of VRAM really limits it to very small models which are fun to play around with, but not for anything serious.
I would love to get my hands on something with more VRAM or one of those unified memory ARM systems. However AI has pushed prices for anything like that into the stratosphere.
I like to hear opinions of people who find it interesting; myself I've tried Claude and did not like the experience and don't use it. I have a similar gaming GPU that could run small models but not ones powerful enough to be very interesting.