Local Deepseek (or frankly, Eliza running on an 8086) is probably perfectly fine slop for 95% of your slop needs, but you’ve gotta have the biggest and shiniest slop. You clearly need a LLM powerful enough to invoke the apocalypse to polish that marketing budget spreadsheet, or you’ll be left behind.
For my vibing/slopping I completely agree. My local Qwen model can do 95% of the work. I keep Claude around only really for planning now, I plan in Claude then hand the plan over to the local models. Where before I had the Max subscription at 100/mo, now I’m down to the Pro at 20/mo, and may even drop that.
Right, I’m even amazed that more businesses aren’t just using older gen models for slightly less ‘genius’ at a fraction of the cost. Maybe everyone’s buying hype, or maybe there’s a hiccup in enterprise scale contracts that I’m not familiar with.
One of our executives has been going off on how the cheapest model from the vendor is plenty good enough for anything the company might want to do. Hasn’t made the leap to just running it on-premise, but certainly already trying to still say “it’s really important” while “don’t spend so much money” at the same time.
The frontier vendors are great hype people.
Local Deepseek (or frankly, Eliza running on an 8086) is probably perfectly fine slop for 95% of your slop needs, but you’ve gotta have the biggest and shiniest slop. You clearly need a LLM powerful enough to invoke the apocalypse to polish that marketing budget spreadsheet, or you’ll be left behind.
For my vibing/slopping I completely agree. My local Qwen model can do 95% of the work. I keep Claude around only really for planning now, I plan in Claude then hand the plan over to the local models. Where before I had the Max subscription at 100/mo, now I’m down to the Pro at 20/mo, and may even drop that.
Right, I’m even amazed that more businesses aren’t just using older gen models for slightly less ‘genius’ at a fraction of the cost. Maybe everyone’s buying hype, or maybe there’s a hiccup in enterprise scale contracts that I’m not familiar with.
One of our executives has been going off on how the cheapest model from the vendor is plenty good enough for anything the company might want to do. Hasn’t made the leap to just running it on-premise, but certainly already trying to still say “it’s really important” while “don’t spend so much money” at the same time.