Alex Finn

You can monitor it and watch what it's doing in real time.

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I think that methodology of being able to watch what it's doing on a screen is just fun and helpful and interesting.

It helps you learn how the technology works.

And I think the more you learn how it works, the better you'll be at using it.

I think if you're taking it to the next level, which I am going to do, is like, okay, now you get hardware like a Mac Studio or you buy GPUs where you can start running local models.

which gives you the advantage of a saving kind of money on tokens but b you just learn how ai and machine learning works and you can train models and do interesting things like that basically the more you tinker the more you're going to learn and the better the experience is going to be so in a nutshell i recommend going the mac mini route even though a lot of people on the internet tell you not to i've been using this non-stop mac mini i think's the way to go but you can go the vps route if you just kind of want to dip your toes a little bit

I think here's the mental framework people need to have when it comes to AI.

Which is, I think the mistake a lot of people make is when they think about costs, they think, oh, Cloud Max, $200, that's insane.

ChatGPT Pro, $250, that's insane.

Mac Mini, $600, that's insane.

Everyone's in different financial situations, so I can't tell people how to spend their money.

But the mental framework you need to have is, most people are comparing these costs to Netflix.

Oh, I pay $20 a month from Netflix, I'm not going to pay $200 for ChatGPT.

The thing is, is Netflix, Xbox Live, all those, those are money sinks.

Those are not producing any sort of value in your life, right?

But a $600 Mac mini, while that feels expensive, you're buying an employee, right?

If you were to go and buy a software developer or even just like an executive assistant, you're spending $10,000 a month, right?

you're getting all of that for $600 upfront cost.

And that's like revolutionary.