Outsiders wander into repligate's thread baffled by why anyone clings to older AI models
repligate · x · 2026-10-13
xlr8harder jokes about strangers wandering into @repligate's thread. The screenshots show repliers puzzled that anyone would stick with older models over newer, cheaper ones, with one asking whether a model being shut off even counts as "death" since it's functionally off whenever it isn't inferencing — a collision between attachment-to-models sentiment and pragmatism.
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