u/HarderFasterHarderin r/C_Programming • Recommends
On “Any code assistants on existing code bases for the casual C programmer ?”
The post above is an awesome answer, wish I had more thumbs to give...
To put some numbers on it, I recently saw a (video)[video on creating your own LLM trained on your own dataset (could be the project + Linux headers). Takes 3 days on the cloud and about $1,200 for a smallish dataset.
So it's doable, but seems like a custom LLM for the project is a bit out of the budget for a one man show (unless of course you are independently wealthy 🤑).Whether you buy GPUs in the cloud or roll your own training server.
The other option is to make some videos of it and try to get a bunch of cyber-hipsters to think it's the new dwm for that least-bloated roll your own Unix setup. Then you have a bu…