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My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaScript now (GLM-4.5 Air)

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577 points simonw | 2 comments | 29 Jul 25 13:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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stpedgwdgfhgdd ◴[29 Jul 25 14:30 UTC] No.44723879[source]▶
Aside that space invaders from scratch is not representative for real engineering, it will be interesting to see what the business model for Anthropic will be if I can run a solid code generation model on my local machine (no usage tier per hour or week), let’s say, one year from now. At $200 per month for 2 years I can buy a decent Mx with 64GB (or perhaps even 128GB taking residual value into account)
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rafaelmn ◴[29 Jul 25 15:16 UTC] No.44724450[source]▶
What about power used and support hardware ? Also card going down means you are down until you get warranty service.
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1. skeezyboy ◴[29 Jul 25 16:06 UTC] No.44725070[source]▶
why are you doing anything locally then?
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2. rafaelmn ◴[30 Jul 25 07:58 UTC] No.44731841[source]▶
Latency and tooling support ? UX of cloud based LLM vs local is much better for the cloud option - not so much for dev tooling.

I tried using remote workstations - I am not a fan of lugging a beefy client machine to do my work - would much rather use something thats super light and power efficient.