Comment by Sharlin

There's no way around the cost of electricity, at least in the short term. Nobody has come up with a way to meaningfully scale capacity without scaling parameter count (≈energy use). Everybody seems to agree that the newest Claudes are the only coding models capable of some actually semi-challenging tasks, and even those are prone to all the usual failure modes and require huge amounts of handholding. No smaller models seem to get even close.