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>>tablet+(OP)
If you are resource constrained this article will make you sad.

I do not have unlimited funds to plug in some token and burn a bunch of money when writing code.

I am gpu poor. I'm lucky that 8gb vram can run the smallest models. But the output is so poor that I lose out to anyone using a hosted service.

If anything this article shows that building great programs is less democratized than it once was.

>>orsorn+3r
ChatGPT is $20 / month?

>>philom+5R
And Gemini is free. https://aistudio.google.com/ gets you free access to their best models.

OpenAI and Anthropic both have free plans as well.