You are on hn so let me ask you this: Are/were you a nerd? Did you play around with systems, use linux for fun etc.?
If yes, you just might be depressed or haven't realized that a job might be shit anyway.
If no, interesting though that you are aware of hn (i have to assume a certain interest because i know plenty of software people avg ones, not being aware of hn at all).
No one is running LLMs on consumer NVidia GPUs or apple MacBooks.
A dev, if they want to run local models, probably run something which just fits on a proper GPU. For everything else, everyone uses an API key from whatever because its fundamentaly faster.
IF a affordable intel GPU would be relevant faster for inferencing, is not clear at all.
A 4090 is at least double the speed of Apples GPU.
If yes, you just might be depressed or haven't realized that a job might be shit anyway.
If no, interesting though that you are aware of hn (i have to assume a certain interest because i know plenty of software people avg ones, not being aware of hn at all).
But hf at the navy.