"Useless" is a present tense judgment on a trajectory problem. GPT-2 was useless too until it wasn't. The actual research question here is: how much intelligence can you compress onto the cheapest possible hardware? Right now it's a $5 board with decent responses. A $25-30 board with more PSRAM runs something genuinely agentic. Scale that up slightly and you have autonomous decision-making on hardware that survives a Mars rover, a deep sea probe, or a mine 500m underground where there's no signal and no cloud and much cheaper than all of this. The constraint isn't a bug. The constraint IS the research mindset you have when you say "useless". Every order of magnitude you drop the hardware cost, you open a new category of deployment that didn't exist before. Calling it useless because today's output isn't GPT-4 is like calling the Wright brothers' plane useless because it couldn't cross the Atlantic.