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Demand a raise.
This would be a fantastic time to try to organize labor in tech. We have needed unions badly for decades now. I hope the AI debacle coupled with rising socialist sentiments in the face of global fascism can finally give us the momentum to get there.
Agreed, all the mass layoffs are really helping build class consciousness among the labor aristocrats.
if we don't manage to push our salaries up from this garbage, we failed.
One jas to Knox how expensive LLMs are by trying to run one at home. Tried running it myself, figured out I need more than 128GiB of RAM and thousand dollars in grahics card. Figured out a $5 openai per month is cheaper, and also understood they are burning money by providing a free service and 20$ subscription.
You should be able to get very decent performance with 128gb vram running Qwen 3.6 with something like https://github.com/itigges22/ATLAS especially if you run MTP https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3.6-27B-MTP-GGUF
A friend of mine gets something like 50 tokens a second with it, and output quality is quite decent.
Yeah, but depending on your location (and usage), you might be burning more than $5/mo in electricity to run that shit. Not to mention the costs of buying all that hardware ... especially at current inflated rates.
If you have to buy 128GB of RAM in 2026, it's going to be a long time before you come out ahead vs paying $20/mo for some AI subscription.
Yeah that's true, depending on the electricity costs, you could be better on a subscription. Especially with DeepSeek, which is incredibly cheap now.
this post was submitted on 25 May 2026
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