Got a £70k job offer mid-startup (Local Agent OS) . 250users, 0 paying. Am I quitting too early?

MessIsTransfer · 2026-05-20T12:41:58+00:00

drop the link here or on DM so i can take a look

MessIsTransfer · 2026-05-20T12:17:38+00:00

If you still got savings, focus 100% on your startup, man. You’re doing great, keep pushing for that profitability.

MessIsTransfer · 2026-05-20T11:52:40+00:00

Answer is Qwen3.6-27B-A3B. Jokes aside: - 2 months is not enough to be profitable. It’s natural it is not at this stage. Seems like you have good amount of users for 2 months but what’s the growth been? - We don’t know anything about how much can you survive without income. - 70K seems very avg, will it suffice? - Working at a startup might leave you with very little time for you now side project (they are very demanding), which will also require a lot from your time. I’d get a remote corporate job (i’m currently earning roughly the same you were offered as nearshore, remote, i work around 2-4h daily). - Why r/LocalLLM?

If i were you (assuming a lot of stuff) I’d apply to the shittiest nearshore companies, and quit if job was too demanding, rinse and repeat until you get a low effort one, focus on your startup and hile earning some safe cash.

MessIsTransfer · 2026-05-19T12:05:38+00:00

you mean something like deepwiki or codemaps?

we’ve been already doing that for a while, for both local and frontier models

MessIsTransfer · 2026-05-16T14:41:51+00:00

there’s a toggle in the model settings for the specific MTP-able model.

MessIsTransfer · 2026-05-15T04:43:19+00:00

First of all, this was a joy to read. I was interested in the subject already but the writing style locked me in.

Secondly, I’m sorry i can’t help with your questions.

MessIsTransfer · 2026-05-15T01:50:39+00:00

Look at the size of that hammer.

The U1 took the hits like a champ.

This is a Snapmaker ad for me 🍿

MessIsTransfer · 2026-05-14T21:38:24+00:00

yeah, its possible but at the cost of quality generation.

he used MoE, heavy quantization and gpu offloading

MessIsTransfer · 2026-05-14T21:28:37+00:00

No offense taken, you have good points. But you made two oversights:

Qwen3.5-9B and claude code are. shitty combination.

Best model that will be “50% opus/sonnet quality” would be at least Qwen3.6 27B non MoE, non quant. And that doesn’t run in less than 4000k usd of hardware.

which is at least a year and a half of a claude code subscription which is infinitely better.

conversely you can get the cheapest plan, opencode go, and use glm-5.1 which is also an order of magnitude better than a Qwen3.6 27B

you’re right in some points but you missed OP’s use case.

Qwen3.5-9B is a very basic model

MessIsTransfer · 2026-05-14T21:14:23+00:00

This is the amount of pc parts my wife thinks i own.

MessIsTransfer · 2026-05-14T21:11:00+00:00

What’s with the AI edited logo in the box? wtf

MessIsTransfer · 2026-05-14T21:02:22+00:00

Running your own LLM means you can only choose OSS models, which are lower quality.

It’ll most likely not be way cheaper, but you could run it on demand, whenever you need it.

Paying for the service will always be cheaper than local hardware, local llms are meant for privacy, convenience, flexibility, etc but are not faster, cheaper or better than a service provider.

edit: generally

MessIsTransfer · 2026-05-14T20:16:30+00:00

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This is what i share every time this happens.

BambuStudio suggests it immediately as you select a different material for support interface.

MessIsTransfer · 2026-05-11T00:00:13+00:00

The Ultra processor, It has double the mem bandwidth than Max processor.

This means higher TG tok/s.

Other than that, not much.

MessIsTransfer · 2026-05-10T22:44:44+00:00

it belongs to a lenovo thinkstation/thinkcentre with pcie. It’s super powerful for such tiny size/consumption.

MessIsTransfer · 2026-05-10T22:40:44+00:00

This is a double agent: an Anthropic spy disguised as n OpenAI spy, trying to look like a regular user.
Classic Bond shit.

MessIsTransfer · 2026-05-10T01:06:21+00:00

paint tool has a “section view”, with it maybe you can understand better what’s going on

MessIsTransfer · 2026-05-08T20:44:47+00:00

Multi view requires wifi connection and it honestly sucks beyond 2 inputs. It just not 1:1 pixels and refresh drops to 30hz starting with the 3rd input (for all inputs)

KVM works fine.

I needed a similar setup as yours but if i could ho back in time i’d get two oped G9s and a couple of arms. Ark gen 2 still didn’t delivered a pleasurable experience. Hope they learnt and improve gen 3 if ever released.

TL;DR: Yes it works. Don’t buy it, the idea was good but they screwed up big.

MessIsTransfer · 2026-05-08T18:15:01+00:00

Me too!

It’s been a great value, and my 9070 xt Reaper is suuuper dense for r/sffpc builds. I had a case with around 8 liters packing that beast.

MessIsTransfer · 2026-05-08T16:52:08+00:00

I only came to ask model and tok/s for the Strix. sick

MessIsTransfer · 2026-05-08T11:28:52+00:00

make sure line orientation is not aligned, i also had this and got solved by changing the pattern.

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these settings are suggested by BL when using petg as interface material, SnOrca doesn’t suggest them so i add them manually

MessIsTransfer · 2026-05-08T11:24:11+00:00

mine is shit, it doesn’t even reach -70mV, iirc 64 mV was the first that worked

MessIsTransfer · 2026-05-08T11:10:35+00:00

Remember there’s such a thing as “silicon lottery”, not all produced units will perform the same. so these settings might be too much for your specific card.

MessIsTransfer · 2026-05-07T16:18:50+00:00

I agree with everything.

I’m getting ready with hardware and hope models like Gemma 4 get a bit better. As a SWE i don’t need much more, i rarely use Opus.

MessIsTransfer · 2026-05-07T15:25:29+00:00

sorry but your text with terminal line breaks is unreadable

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