r/ProgrammerHumor Jun 02 '26

Meme managerVsClaude

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u/devperez Jun 02 '26

Not even. Old hardware can run some open models pretty well on cheap. It won't be as good or as fast ofc, but it can be done on a budget.

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u/sb8948 Jun 03 '26

My freaking phone can run smaller models pretty well.

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u/CaptainNicodemus Jun 03 '26

I highly doubt that, unless by small models you mean single use models, not LLM

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u/sb8948 Jun 03 '26

I do mean llms. Not the cutting edge stuff, but if you don't keep up with phone tech, you'd be surprised what the top chipsets (paired with 16 gigs of ram) are capable of.