Dimitris Zervas

@nolan@toot.cafe I honestly wish you're wrong, that we'll be known as "the people that got scared by AI for a bit", but I fear very much that won't be the case. Though I do not share all your beliefs/thoughts regarding how good AI is/will (ever?) be. My deepest fear is the "craft" side. My hobby, my dearest love. My GitHub profile was up there showing my work, without any doubt, but now? Now it might be AI. Who knows? When I wanted to write something and reached an area or a feature that was unconventional, I would dive deep. I would learn everything around and understand it deeply, to its core. Sleep was optional Is that gone? Is that a phase? Am I getting old and tired (even though I've just reached 30)? What will become of my hobby? Of my code? Of my love for the craft...

@oli@social.tchncs.de @riaschissl@sigmoid.social even for 20 people, what would run and on what hardware? even deepseek ~0.5T parameter model needs a tremendous amount of vram (around 1G/B params) and the price of it is in the ballpark of "let's buy a house that will be useless in 5 years"

@SwiftOnSecurity AND I can print AND scan from Linux & graphene with near 0 effort!

@oli@social.tchncs.de @riaschissl@sigmoid.social I agree with you that pure parameter count is not what we're after but "a few rtx 6000" translates to roughly 30-40k + supporting hardware around it + electricity. That's nowhere near what 20 people would spend on AI subscriptions and the performance of the model you'll be running is simply worse - maybe by a lot maybe by a little, currently is by a lot but that could change soon and in 5 years you would still have to buy new hardware, doing a similar (or bigger) investment. I fail to see how that makes any kind of economical sense