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rglullis a day ago

> One claude instance also doesn't need billions of dollars of operational infrastructure to work.

Of course it does. It's the marginal cost that is low.

> 100% of my infrastructure is in the cloud.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey_illusion

> My laptop also had an outage when the logic board broke.

And if you had a local backup, you'd be able to resume your work immediately.

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streetfighter64 a day ago | parent [-]

> My laptop also had an outage when the logic board broke.

> And if you had a local backup, you'd be able to resume your work immediately.

Immediately after buying a new laptop. Or perhaps you mean you keep a spare laptop around? In any case, it's also an object that requires a huge environmentally destructive supply chain to create. Quite like a LLM...

	▲	rglullis a day ago \| parent [-]
		> Immediately after buying a new laptop No. I could go by with an older one, or in a pinch I could repurpose my current media server. Or I could put my data in an SSD with a bootable partition and borrow my wife's laptop... > huge environmentally destructive supply chain to create. Sunk cost fallacy? If the major electronics factories explode today, the existing computers won't stop working. If any of the Anthropic's datacenters go under, the compute capacity would have to be rebuilt.