We need Linux on phones. Bank apps not needed as long as I can use browser. But do need some things like wireless cards, popular apps like Sonos and Spotify working.
Reason people want the best: people want to believe their project is so advanced that they need the most clever LLM possible. To say otherwise is to admit that it's not really frontier or novel in any way. And people don't like that.
OpenRouter sometimes chooses a very expensive provider. Try the floor slug or choose directly the provider. I moved to just putting 5 dollars directly on deepseek instead of going through OR.
I mean indsight is 20/20, but saying that is like saying "everyone will just use the best tools".
That's not what we see most places in the world for most types of resources.
We try to keep things simple. Everything has risks. No stall, run async, backward compatible. DB handles rollback via transactions. Happy to expand if interested.
Agreed. And the gained time either goes toward 1) more experiments, or 2) leisure, which makes you sharper in the lab and happier overall.
Not sure the "I saved $17,000 so far" framing is the most useful way to look at it, but it's a cool project and I love that people are doing this kind of thing.