Manager proposes building in-house LLM to save API costs
trawasthi_ai · x · 2026-08-18
A tweet satirizes the common corporate tendency to reinvent the wheel: a Manager/TPM suggests starting a POC next week to build an in-house LLM just because external API/Token costs are too high. This highlights the frequent misconception regarding the complexity and cost of training models.
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