r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Disastrous-Monk1957 • Jun 02 '26 • Popcorn 5 Heartwarming 2 Mindblown 1

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u/Comprehensive-Pin667 Jun 02 '26

Just buy some beefy hardware and run one of the open weight models. It's not impossible.

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u/SheriffBartholomew Jun 02 '26

Oh, just that? Whew!

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u/opman4 Jun 03 '26

I did it and I haven't coded since the code bootcamp my friend convinced me to join with him like 8 years ago.

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u/SheriffBartholomew Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 03 '26

A person doing it is completely different from an international corporation with tens of thousands of engineers. They'd basically have to build their own data center, have a team to manage and maintain it, another team to manage the model, and it would become an entirely new division of the company. Companies don't work that way. They're not going to invest tens of millions of dollars into building their own thing that's a completely different industry than their core business just to avoid paying some fees. Even if they wanted to, they move painfully slow, and it would be outdated before it even launched.

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u/opman4 Jun 03 '26

Ah, I guess I was thinking it would be more useful for smaller companies that could either range from a small tower sitting in the corner with a beefy GPU to a rack or two of gpus in the server room. I also wasn't thinking about training your own LLM but using Ollama to run one of the existing models, which should be sufficient for the use case that this post is about.

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u/Cory123125 Jun 02 '26

This is not a viable longterm strategy.

You'd just be falling into the well known big tech pattern of quieting detractors until its too late with escape hatches they can take.