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Re:I use Cursor daily - here's how I avoid the garbage parts by _puk on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @05:40AM (#43341337)
Back up your $20 a month subscription with a $2000 Mac Studio for those days your internet is down.

Peak HN.

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Re:I use Cursor daily - here's how I avoid the garbage parts by automatic6131 on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @05:51AM (#43341413)
Lol he suggested a $10k Mac Studio

But you can at least resell that $10k Mac Studio, theoretically.

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Re:I use Cursor daily - here's how I avoid the garbage parts by mettamage on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @05:59AM (#43341472)
Trying to do that with an M1 laptop of 32 GB and it's hard to get even 1000 euro's for it in the Netherlands whereas the refurbished price is at double of that.
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Re:I use Cursor daily - here's how I avoid the garbage parts by yohannesk on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @05:55AM (#43341445)
Even more absurd is that Mac Studio with 512GB RAM costs around $9.5K
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Re:I use Cursor daily - here's how I avoid the garbage parts by ant6n on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @12:04PM (#43344672)
> Peak HN.

But, alas, not a single upvote.

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Re:I use Cursor daily - here's how I avoid the garbage parts by rullopat on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @05:56AM (#43341450)
2000$? You wish!
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Re:I use Cursor daily - here's how I avoid the garbage parts by _puk on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @07:14AM (#43342006)
Lol, not sure where I got the 2k from. Brain fart, but I'll let it stand :D
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Re:I use Cursor daily - here's how I avoid the garbage parts by timothygold on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @09:20AM (#43342953)
Maybe this "backup" solution.. developed into commodity hardware as an affordable open source solution that keeps the model and code locally and private at all times is the actual solution we need.

Lets say a cluster of raspberry pi's / low powered devices producing results as good as claude 3.7-sonnet. Would it be completely infeasible to create a custom model that is trained on your own code base and might not be a fully fledged LLM but provides similar features to cursor?

Have we all gone bonkers sending our code to third parties? The code is the thing you want to keep secret unless your working on an open source project.

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