Spending $40k Locally to Save a $20 Subscription

angadsg · x · 2026-07-12

This is a classic AI community meme vent: someone spent $40,000 to run GLM 5.2 locally, all just to save the $20/month Cursor subscription. The poster shared it with a "feeling called out" vibe, highlighting the absurdity of such an extremely unbalanced cost-to-benefit ratio.

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