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Re:The current balance of power in open models by unrented7977 on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @05:08PM (#49822657)
You really don't need to be large. $100k can buy you a lot of compute and it's less than hiring an engineer. With that kind of money you can build an LLM server for a dozen people.

One engineer's salary to accelerate a team of twelve is so cheap you can't afford not to.

Open models on-prem is the future, not a single doubt in my mind.

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Re:The current balance of power in open models by schnitzelstoat on Friday September 25, 2026 @07:49AM (#49843292)
I'm old enough to remember when my company had everything on-prem (both analytical and operational databases and servers) due to cost and security concerns. Nowadays we have everything on GCP.

The biggest problem we had with on-prem was maintenance as it took a lot of staff and time to ensure decent reliability.

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