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Could be simpler, yep.

If it was that straightforward then reality would be different huh?

Problem being that the majority of software engineers really don’t know how to build software well.

And are using AI as a tool to just accelerate their lack of engineering.

You could include energy usage in the equation, but if you’re buying a $10,000 Mac Studio to edit your PDFs and watch YouTube, then that’s your own decision. That’s also not what we’re talking about here.

The Mac is still going to be incredibly energy efficient.

Let’s break it down for Qwen 3.5 MoE.

• M4 Ultra Mac Studio:
  • 22t/s
  • ~ 210Wh
  • 9.55 watts per token/s
• B300 GPU:
  • ~ 2160t/s per GPU
  • ~ 1750Wh (14Kwh 8 GPU System)
  • 0.88 watts per tokens/s

The Mac Studio comes out using ~ 11-12x more energy per token. Making it extremely energy inefficient at this task in comparison.

They really aren’t.

Have you used open weight models for serious jobs? Ones that you can actually run effectively on a Mac studio? (Not deepseek v4 pro, not Kimi K3, not GLM 5.3)

They work alright, at best, sometimes.

And the ones you can’t run effectively, locally, like Kimi K3 are considerably better at demanding tasks like software engineering. But even then they still suck at that job compared to frontier Anthropic and OpenAI models. I’ve been building with all of the above, and the open weight models just overall suck at serious high demand software workloads.

No, no, they have not.

I did the math the other day, and the cost of the mac versus the token rate that you get off of it for a decent model would take you over 70 years of 100% 24/7/365 usage to pay for itself versus just using hosted inference.

They are wildly poor options for local AI models, at least on a cost basis. If you don’t care about spending $10,000 to run a halfway okay model at 100x the cost, then go for it.

… Yes?

Public knowledge drives public opinion and decision making.

A lack of knowledge of history makes us more likely to repeat history. Rewriting of history is usually a tactic that prevents mistakes of the past from being taught or learned, often for a direct benefit to an entity.

Yeah, our society is fucked, that’s what

… What?

Lazy people using tools in a shitty manner has been an age old problem.

This just lets it scale, which is the problem. There used to be a barrier to entry for those less knowledgeable or experienced, now there isn’t and that’s the result.

It is a productivity tool, and it’s being used as one, by both people that know how and people who don’t.

Point to me in your quote where it talks about distance.

Did you reply to the wrong comment because you’re quoting time, not distance?

So you tried to defeat someone else’s experience with an anecdote where you have not had that experience. What even are you trying to say here?

Lots of people’s cats have behaviors like this. Feeding them a certain amount on a fixed schedule helps. We have six cats. One of them is like this. It’s a pain in the ass.

Especially if you’re away from home

It seems very reasonable for owners of this device to expect something as simple as a schedule to work without having to phone home first.

As a software engineer, blows my mind how teams build shit like this

Ah yes, the classic “the stupid consumers are stupid” argument.

This was sold as being an offline-capable device. It even has battery slots for power outages.

Perhaps instead of shitting on people for buying something they thought would be nice and work well, we shit on the company that can’t even give a pet feeder an on-device offline schedule after selling people on a device that’s supposed to work offline and even during power outages.

And figure out how we can hack it and enable folks to control the hardware they own, because they weren’t stupid for buying a pet feeder. The company that runs it just does so in a moronic way.

(I don’t own one of these, but I have considered it a few times, and this just pisses me off)

Oh of course, I’m not arguing against solar. Just arguing against dumb takes.

Did you just strawman a fact with an anecdote and then completely get your second statement backwards?

Nuclear plants have to scale down their water output for ecological regulation reasons. Which means they have to restrict their inflow, which means they have to restrict their output capacity.

Oil industry wants you to think that nuclear there doesn’t work, not that it does. Oil and coal have been working against nuclear for an entire generation or more.

Not sure if joking or just ignorance? Both?

1. The nuclear capacity losses are because of environmental regulations, not because of inherent issues with nuclear.
   • Regulations restrict discharge of cooled water above 30°C into waterways, and they are responsible for the riverway temperature downstream of them. Since the waterways are warmer during a heat wave and the nuclear plant is responsible for the temperature of that waterway, they cannot discharge as much warm water into that waterway.
2. Solar doesn’t work at night, and sufficiently scalable energy storage technology doesn’t yet exist.
3. Solar loses considerable capacity as ambient temperature increases. At 40°C ambient, you’re talking about a 15% or higher reduction in efficiency. Which would be HIGHER than the ~12% reduction in nuclear capacity Europe hmis seeing

Our org is doing it better by just hiding the configuration from everyone else in the org, so no one can audit it anyways 🤦

Who knows how it’s configured.

Looks like a ChatGPT poster

They aren’t?

They are buying up capacity from manufacturers who are stopping production of DRAM and pivot to HBM which is more profitable. Abandoning DRAM which affects a lot more than just “consumer grade RAM”