I think that within the next year or two we'll have the ability to put a frontier-class model on our desks, and I like the idea of playing around with that today to get ahead of it. I could be wrong, I often am.

I'm not optimizing for $$$ spent today and agree that this isn't the cheapest solution to a specific capability problem, but I don't super mind paying for a cool piece of compute that I can do some fun (and educational) stuff with.

Because I spent $15k in AI costs last month doing real work at my day job; I'd like to do the same thing for myself but I don't like lighting cash on fire.