That’s true, but there are also massive economies of scale when you can afford the big Nvidia gpus and share them among many people.

I agree. I use openrouter myself.

In general I agree with you, but llms are the one exception where it’s not practical and not cost effective to run them locally. If you want to use them, the better option is by far to pay someone for the service.

I used the title they used on their bluesky post, which was less clickbaity than the web page one.

There are lots of countries where you need to bribe government officials in order to achieve the simple things. The US is fortunately still far from that level.

Rust, haskell, python, c++ are all interesting choices. I would argue that c# is too close to what you already know to be interesting.

If I were you though, I’d pick a project first, then decide what language makes sense for it.