While Im still personally skeptical on the ability of these tools to produce a GOOD software engineer, it’s something I should probably consider testing in a limited capacity.

I’ve noticed Deepseek has a few integrations, both official and hobbyist, with text editors like Claude Code. Plus, I’d rather not pay £20/mo for any of this stuff, let alone to any AI company NOT linked to the CPC.

I might consider a locally hosted model but the upfront cost for anything that can run it decently fast/high params are quite prohibitive. My home server isn’t really set up for good cooling!

  • piccolo [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Fair enough, I must say I haven’t tried local models (tfw no GPU ;_;). I guess my take is that if it costs a tenth of a cent on OpenRouter to use a SOTA open source model, I might as well do that, but I can see the appeal of local models for easier queries.