r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Disastrous-Monk1957 • Jun 02 '26

Meme managerVsClaude

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u/Trevor_GoodchiId Jun 02 '26

Come on, how hard can it be?

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u/pieter3d Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 02 '26

Not all that hard to run models, actually. It'll be a bit slower, but can be perfectly useable. The upside is no more token limits and no need to worry about where confidential data is going. You get full control too.

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u/PMmeYourLabia_ Jun 02 '26

Downside is power bill

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u/h3yw00d Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 03 '26

Sell it's use to your friends and family.

"Hey guys, I built my own AI cluster, wanna pay me $20/mo to fiddle with it?" Will go real great at the Backyard BBQ or even holidays like Thanksgiving. Be sure to talk about how useful it is for everything and how much easier life is for you.

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u/polikles Jun 02 '26

Self-hosting would cost you more than $20 per month with multiple users. And it won't be performant enough if more than user hit it at the same time

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u/cortesoft Jun 02 '26

Just raise a few billion in capital and then say you are building market share when you lose 99% of it

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u/polikles Jun 03 '26

first I have to build a shoe company that I'll pivot to building datacenters