We Live In The Year 2779 From The Founding Of Rome
We live in the year AUC 2779, or AUC MMDCCLXXVIII in Roman numerals.
Ab Urbe Condita, often abbreviated as AUC, means "From The Founding Of The City". It refers to the year of the founding of Rome, which was the Epoch used in Ancient Rome.
From your post I can only perceive the instinct to pick a side, and trying to make sure it is the "winning side".
But the truth is far more nuanced. I have acces to both, paid and local models, and even if slower, the local models have been far more educative about how these technologies are put together, and what is required for local computing to thrive again. Paid models will not suddenly disappear just because I play with glm-4.6 on Ollama. At the same time, my work pays the cloud subscription and I use the cloud models to perform the tasks my work requires. There's no need to choose one side.
An entire codebase of PL/SQL Oracle stored procedures, and I migrated it to MySQL stored procedures. Long before LLMs existed.
You migrate the logic as-is because you want to replace the other code. You don't go rewriting or optimizing stuff just yet, not until the migration is complete.
It helps a lot in isolating migration related issues from optimization related issues. You do one thing at at time, and fully test it before doing the next thing.
Honestly that "most people" seems to be more marketing driven than real opinion.
When you simply can't purchase one thing, then you move to the next thing.
I have several wired and wireless headphones, all for different uses, and the existence of wireless headphones don't make the wired ones less useful for their particular strenghts.
Yep, let the AI write efficient code in a compiled language.
Switch everything to C++/Dlang/Rust. You are not writing the code anyway, so all arguments against those languages are moot now.
Replace Node.js, Electron, and even Java/C#.
I have three laptops and a desktop. The desktop has 128GB of RAM.
I bought the memory at the end of the last year, and I was thinking, maybe this is excessive. No game will use that much memory, in a decade or more.
Now I realize it was one of the best purchases ever, I run qwen3-coder-next on it for just the cost of the electricity, while the coding and agents and whatever else is done in a laptop. Yeah, it is slower, I don't care. Infinite tokens is better than a few.
The cloud is another computer, but in this case it is mine =)
We live in the year AUC 2779, or AUC MMDCCLXXVIII in Roman numerals.
Ab Urbe Condita, often abbreviated as AUC, means "From The Founding Of The City". It refers to the year of the founding of Rome, which was the Epoch used in Ancient Rome.