I too went through the dot com era: as in when Sun Microsystems had the tag line "we are the dot in dot com".
I assure you that before Apache and Linux took over that "dot" in the .com was not cheap!
Fortunately it only really lasted maybe 1993-1997 (I think Oracle announced Linux support in 1997, and that allowed a bunch of companies to start moving off Solaris).
But it wasn't until after the 2001 crash that people started doing sharded MySQL and then NoSQL to scale databases (when you needed it back then!).
It's early. You can do LORA training now on home systems, and for $500 you can rent enough compute to do even more meaningful fine-tuning. Lets see where we are in 5 and 10 years time.
(Provided the doomers don't get LLMs banned of course!)
I assure you that before Apache and Linux took over that "dot" in the .com was not cheap!
Fortunately it only really lasted maybe 1993-1997 (I think Oracle announced Linux support in 1997, and that allowed a bunch of companies to start moving off Solaris).
But it wasn't until after the 2001 crash that people started doing sharded MySQL and then NoSQL to scale databases (when you needed it back then!).
It's early. You can do LORA training now on home systems, and for $500 you can rent enough compute to do even more meaningful fine-tuning. Lets see where we are in 5 and 10 years time.
(Provided the doomers don't get LLMs banned of course!)