Comment by littlestymaar
2 days ago
> Local models are purely for fun, hobby, and extreme privacy paranoia
I always find it funny when the same people who were adamant that GPT-4 was game-changer level of intelligence are now dismissing local models that are both way more competent and much faster than GPT-4 was.
Moon lander computers were also game changers. Does not mean I should be impressed by the compute of a 30 year old calcualator that is 100x more powerful/efficient in 2025 when we have stuff a few orders of magnitude better.
For simple compute, its usefulness curve is a log scale. 10x faster may only be 2x more useful. For LLMs (and human intelligence) its more quadratic, if not inverse log (140IQ human can do maths that you cannot do with 2x 70IQ humans. And I know, IQ is not a good/real metric, but you get the point)
30-years old calculators are still good enough for basic arithmetic and in fact even in 2025 people have one emulated on their phone that isn't more powerful than the original, and people still use them routinely.
If Claude 3 Sonnet was good enough to be your daily driver last year, surely something that is as powerful is good enough to be your daily driver today. It's not like the amount of work you must do to get paid doubled over the past year or anything.
Some people just feel the need to live always on the edge for no particular reason.
Claude 3 Sonnet was good enough for many things, but not as universal as 4.5 Opus. It is immeasureably more useful to me.
I agree with all of your other points though.