what trade off would one need to clear to justify the hardware and the work to get this running locally as part of a broader system? It’s a lot of work setting up and maintaining a production harness/system on a local device. I don’t personally repeatedly generate images at a scale where using a lab’s app somehow burns all my tokens. I like the ideas of local ai but I don’t see widespread adoption of it happening in commercial or customer situations anytime soon no matter how little/good enough they get. Even Uber- token burn whiplash but I doubt their answer will be “run some of it local”. IT nightmare, I’d imagine.
I’m super envious. I can’t seem to do anything without a half a million tokens. I had to create a slash command that I run at the start of every session so the darn thing actually reads its own memory- whatever default is just doesn’t seem to do it. It’ll do things like start to spin up scripts it’s already written and stored in the code base unless I start every conversation with instructions to go read persistence and memory files. I also seem to have to actively remind it to go update those things at various parts of the conversation even though it has instructions to self update. All these things add up to a ton of work every session.
I have really struggled to get nano banana to follow size/proportion ratios for sprite art. any tips? I fed in a bunch of examples first and tried to write a really strict prompt. I wonder if any of the sw being discussed here can be programmatically controlled by claude code or similar to do sprite work
entirely possible I’m just really bad at this stuff but I can’t get browser agents to do simple report pulls without running into a captcha or a dropdown menu that breaks its brain. hopefully this is the one!
I had to threaten to sue them by opting out of their time triggered arbitration clause to get them to give me the deposit back on a car they couldn’t/wouldn't deliver. Carvana sucks.
I should add that sometimes LM Studio just feels better for the use case, same model same purpose seemingly different output usually when involving RAG, but Anything is definitely a very intuitive visual experience
It’s crazy you have to go like four comments deep and into the sub convo before you find mention of windows on arm- apple silicon is just so dominant in the zeitgeist for people who think about this stuff