Maybe this is kind of obvious to others, but it just dawned on me even though I've been lurking this sub since the original LLaMA. I was watching this (excellent, as always) video by Gamers Nexus. Steve Burke was bashing on Tim Sweeney (CEO of Epic Games) for being so pro AI, and I found myself feeling a bit of cognitive dissonance. On the one hand I hate that hardware prices are so high, I hate the billionaires inflating the AI bubble and raking in the profits, I hate greedy corps trying to replace jobs with AI, and I hate the data center build out. But on the other hand I'm a developer and AI has given me superpowers. I felt weird, because Burke was dumping on Epic Games for embracing vibe coding, but vibe coding has 100x'd my output, allowed me to pursue so many passion projects, and the AI's output is oftentimes better than what I would've written anyway. I felt like the message of the video was 'all AI is bad', but I realized that it's more nuanced than that. Cloud AI is bad. Cloud AI is the problem, not AI in general. With local AI, we can have our cake and eat it too: cheap, powerful consumer hardware for running local AI and gaming, no censorship, data, or privacy issues, less data centers, less profit going to billionaires, and unlimited tokens to vibe code whatever the hell we want. Hope the datacenter bubble bursts soon. TLDR: dum dum realizes that the future is local AI bc it's a win-win-win-win for average people   submitted by   /u/Swimming_Beginning24 [link]   [comments]