The dark fiber comparison is very close. I remember contracting bandwidth with Global Crossing in the late 90s/early 2000s when they were HOT and two years later they were bankrupt.
I've been thinking the same way. I bit the bullet and purchased two DGX sparks and am running GLM 5.3 Flash at a reasonable quant and it's quite amazing seeing this "brain" on my desk do real work and create code without anything leaving the building. But look what happened with hosting, it got more and more centralized over time. In the early 2000s there were more companies self hosting than now I'd bet.
For the types of basic business tasks my company does, we have hit the line where if it never gets any better, we are fine. On our own hardware. For $25k worth of DGX Sparks, we have essentially the output of a few admin-level FTEs.
Agree but if you don't want to then be at the mercy of the cloud providers when everyone is rushing for the exits, you need to start thinking about securing hardware now.
Every new generation of model goes and cleans up the slop of its predecessor in my code bases, and it has turned out to be quite effective.
Last year I held off on implementing a few features knowing that a model like Opus 5.5 was around the corner. I'm now implementing them in a much more efficient and quality manner than I could have fall of 2025.
Indeed. Maybe people down voting me don't like to admit it but when models train on the entirety of human input you can assume they'd be better than the average human.
This is probably why web development and scripts are much more effective domains while anyone working on anything even slightly off the track is either tearing their hair out or writing a new layer of software to write the software.
I use it on fireworks which is US/ZDR and pretty reliable. We run a few hundred million tokens/day through it for dollars. Many are cached, which is super duper cheap.
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