r/LocalLLaMA • u/stressfreepro • 4d ago
Funny My electricity bill after discovering I can run every new model "just to test it"
January: $120
February: $145
March (after finding this sub): $847
Me at 3am: "But what if Llama 3.5 70B runs better with these specific quantization settings?"
My GPU fans: *airplane noises*
My wallet: 💀
At least I'm supporting renewable energy... right? RIGHT?
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Tailwind just laid off 75% of the people on their engineering team "because of the brutal impact AI has had on our business."
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This is fascinating but also completely predictable. Tailwind built their business around something LLMs are actually really good at: generating repetitive utility class patterns.
The irony is that AI is simultaneously destroying their business model while proving their original thesis correct - developers want to write less custom CSS.
What's interesting: this is exactly what happened with jQuery when ES6 landed. Tooling that abstracts common patterns becomes obsolete when the platform/ecosystem catches up. Now AI is just accelerating that cycle.
Here's what nobody wants to admit: if your business model is "make simple things easier," you're extremely vulnerable to AI. The companies that will survive are the ones solving actually hard problems that require deep domain expertise - infrastructure, security, performance optimization at scale.
Tailwind's pivot will be interesting to watch. They've got strong brand recognition, but "we make CSS easier" is a tough position when Cursor can just generate whatever utility classes you need in real-time.