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It's not a dream come true to have a bunch of GPUs crunching at full power to achieve your minor automation, with the company making them available losing massive amounts of money on it:

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-gui/

... while also exposing the contents of your computer to surveillence.

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Well, yes there is that.

I'd like to say I'm praising the paradigm shift more than anything else (and this is to some degree achievable with smaller, open and sometimes local agentic models), but yes, there are definitely nasty externalities (though burning VC cash is not high up that list for me). I hope some externalities can be be optimized away.

But a fair comment.

Well me plus a $1200 / year subscription is still much cheaper than 2 of me.

The point is that it costs more than $1200, you're just not the one paying all the costs. It seems like there are a ton of people on HN who are absolutely pumped to be totally dependent on a tool that must rugpull them eventually to continue existing as a business. It feels like an incredible shame that the craft is now starting to become totally dependent on tools like this, where you're calling out to the cloud to do even the most basic programming task.

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