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asyncmind on Nostr: You used to buy a workstation to start a company. Now you need to start a company to ...

You used to buy a workstation to start a company. Now you need to start a company to buy a workstation.

At this rate, you'll need an LLC, an accountant, a depreciation schedule, and a financing round just to run a decent local AI model.

A high-end GPU costs like industrial equipment. RAM is becoming a capital allocation decision. And apparently 32 GB of VRAM is what passes for consumer computing.

The personal computer was supposed to democratise computational power.

Instead, we're watching the workstation slowly become an enterprise asset, while ordinary developers are encouraged to rent back their computing capacity by the token.

The irony is spectacular.

We spent forty years making computers personal, only to arrive at an industry where owning enough compute to think independently is becoming a business proposition.

The next computing revolution won't just be about faster chips. It'll be about making serious computing personal again.

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