Compute debate: multiplayer games already proved everyone rents cloud machines
kuza55 · x · 2026-09-03
In a debate over whether local compute suffices, a developer pushes back on the console analogy: gaming has latency requirements the cloud struggles with, yet every multiplayer game runs on a server — and with the shift to SaaS, everyone is effectively renting cloud machines already. An argument for inference moving to rented cloud compute.
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