What's the best you can do hosting an LLM locally for under $X dollars. Let's say $5000. Is there a reference guide online for this? Is there a straight answer or does it depend? I've looked at Nvidia spark and high end professional GPUs but they all seem to have serious drawbacks.

The nice thing is unlike Cloudflare or AWS you can actually host good LLMs locally. I see a future where a non-trivial percentage of devs have an expensive workstation that runs all of the AI locally.

It has 9 million lines of code. The coding standards alone are 135 pages. Even with smart people, that sounds challenging to maintain that much C++ (I am surprised no one offered the "rust" advice yet)

How does this work, exactly? What is the law that allows relatives of H1B to become citizens?

I gave it a fair shot.

It is a vs code fork. There were some UI glitches. Some usability was better. Cursor has some real annoying usability issues - like their previous/next code change never going away and no way to disable it. Design of this one looks more polished and less muddy.

I was working on a project and just continued with it. It was easy because they import setting from cursor. Feels like the browser wars.

Anyway, I figured it was the only way to use gemini 3 so I got started. A fast model that doesn't look for much context. Could be a preprompt issue. But you have to prod it do stuff - no ambition and a kinda offputting atitude like 2.5.

But hey - a smarter, less context rich Cursor composer model. And that's a complement because the latest composer is a hidden gem. Gemini has potential.

So I start using it for my project and after about 20 mins - oh, no. Out of credits.

What can I do? Is there a buy a plan button? No? Just use a different model?

What's the strategy here? If I am into your IDE and your LLM, how do I actually use it? I can't pay for it and it has 20 minutes of use.

I switched back to cursor. And you know? it had gemini 3 pro. Likely a less hobbled version. Day one. Seems like a mistake in the eyes of the big evil companies but I'll take it.

Real developers want to pay real money for real useful things.

Google needs to not set themselves up for failure with every product release.

If you release a product, let those who actually want to use it have a path to do so.

I'd say screw it, get rid of nickles and dimes as well. Quarters can stay, for now.

It's a complete waste of money and time continuing to mint such low-value currency. It can't be used for just about anything.

Unfortunately, I do see the problem with part of this. For a handful of items where it does matter, it will force people to use cards more if they want to avoid rounding. And the card providers already have a choke-hold on retailers, and the whole thing is basically a scheme that funnels money from the poor to the wealthy via interest and fees on the consumer, interchange fees, and rewards programs.