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Re:Making a Vintage LLM from Scratch by charcircuit on Friday June 12, 2026 @01:30PM (#48506978)
Most hobbyists rent the compute for training models instead of needing to purchase it all out right.
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Re:Making a Vintage LLM from Scratch by dennysora-main on Friday June 12, 2026 @09:04PM (#48511183)
It's mainly just my personal preference to run a local machine. It gives me better privacy and security, and I can keep all my heavy data and projects right there.

Cloud rentals are usually billed hourly. Since I constantly tweak the architecture and run it again, having a local rig completely kills any cost anxiety—it's just a one-off payment.

Plus, regular users can't even get access to H100s anyway. I applied on AWS and GCP before and couldn't get them.

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