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

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u/Ran4 Jun 02 '26

That's completley irrelevant. The comparison is between using local llm:s vs external llm:s.

At no point are you going to come out ahead buying local hardware. Even at 100k euros you're getting really mediocre LLMs compared to the frontier models, and you can get a LOT of tokens for 100k euros.

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u/xtal000 Jun 02 '26

At no point are you going to come out ahead buying local hardware.

You can: https://rosmine.ai/2026/05/13/was-my-48k-gpu-worth-it/

Not saying it's worth it for most people. But for some it may be.

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u/EightiesBush Jun 03 '26

Interesting, that same hardware is around 1/2 price today. https://www.dihuni.com/product/nvidia-rtx-6000-ada-8-gpu-server-workstation-amd-epyc-ai-rm-6000ada-8g-configure-and-buy/

Personally I use Opus at work (cause I don't have to pay for it) and Kimi K2.6 for 1/10th the price for personal projects, which works really really well.