Not everyone has the capability to rent out data center tier hardware to just do their job. These things require so much damn compute you need some serious heft to actually daisy chain enough stages either in parallel or deep to get enough tokens/sec for the experience to go ham. If you're making bags o' coke money, and deciding to fund Altman's, Zuckernut's or Amazon/Google's/Microsoft's datacenter build out, that's on you. Rest of us are just trying to get by on bits and bobs we've kept limping over the years. If opencode is anything to judge the vibecoded scene by, I'm fairly sure at some point the vibe crowd will learn the lesson of isolating the most expensive computation ever from the hot loop, then maybe find one day all they needed was maybe something to let the model build a context, and a text editor.

Til then wtf_are_these_abstractions.jpg

This is my current problem: I can get work to pay for a Claude Max subscription, but for personal use or to learn how to use it that's a big price tag.

I worry that we're returning to an era of renting core development tools. After the huge benefits from free and open source tools, that's a bitter pill to swallow.