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It’s been quite exciting that Qwen 3.8 Flash Next has come out: it really is similar to Opus 4.5, 4.6 for coding. Remarkably intelligent, and runs on a single DGX Spark, which I paid $4000 USD for

Sadly they’re now twice that price, which is a shame because I really want a second one!

I have a heretic modified version of it too, for when I want to use it for security and so on. Quite interesting

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The 4090 I bought in '23 is selling for ~3x what I paid for it now in late '26. There's a huge squeeze going on with computer hardware using relatively cheap borrowed money. Relatively cheap money is flowing into a (artificially?) limited GPU/memory asset class. And this asset class is growing much faster in value than the interest on that money. So if you borrowed heavily to buy GPUs in the prior 3 years, you're likely coming out well ahead even if you are paying 8 to 10% on the money.

That dynamic will fuel further borrowing until we get to some kind of equilibrium, or some kind of washout occurs where interest rates spike higher and/or the value of GPUs and GPU services start leveling off or even declining. We might get a test soon as the FED has started hiking.

This is a great model on my Framework Strix Halo box as well. (also now about 2x what I paid for it in summer of '25)

Same here. I was planning to get a second, just got this one ten seconds before they became unobtanium. Here’s hoping Qwen 4 Flash is the same size!

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