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I regret building this $3000 Pi AI cluster

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468 points speckx | 4 comments | 19 Sep 25 14:28 UTC | HN request time: 0.767s | source
1. xnx ◴[19 Sep 25 14:47 UTC] No.45302264[source]▶
Fun project. Was the author hoping for cost effective performance?!

I assumed this was a novelty, like building a RAID array out of floppy drives.

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2. leptons ◴[19 Sep 25 14:54 UTC] No.45302341[source]▶
A lot of people don't understand the performance limits of the Raspberry Pi. It's a great little platform for some things, but it isn't really fit for half the use cases I've seen.
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3. LTL_FTC ◴[19 Sep 25 15:08 UTC] No.45302480[source]▶
The author is a YouTuber and projects like these pay for themselves with the views they garner. Even the title is designed for engagement.
4. Our_Benefactors ◴[19 Sep 25 15:11 UTC] No.45302516[source]▶
This was my impression as well, the bit about GPU incompatibility with llama.cpp made me think he was in over his head.