Most devs will say less, but the reality is most of the time you build the wrong thing first, and the price you quote almost never gets what the client wants/expects and includes many overruns.
Every single contractor will say: that never happens when I do it...
This is a better solution for many businesses.
One, they already have a steaming pile of crap that kind of works. Forking that over to someone to "fix" for €10-50k is a steal - even if there's a decent chance they deliver nothing valuable.
You're talking about on the low end a few weeks of a dev's salary. You get next to nothing for that most of the time...
You could easily spend 4-5x that, take 3-4x longer and get something you can't use at all.
As some already said; the real win is into having a business driven prototype; the work to gather those specs is already done and, generally, very costly when done in the traditional way. So from scratch if having to do all of it is more expensive; technical from scratch far less so.
The fast-food worker being replaced by a kiosk is inevitable and not limited to California, but even the kiosk is mostly transitory and destined to be largely replaced by a phone app.
Wild speculation here obviously, but it could be a regulation play--there's a lot of potential legislation that would regulate what you can legally 3D print, which would warrant a system to be the age-verification equivalent for 3D printing.
If this is the angle then I'm even more suspicious that they're secretly pushing for the legislation so when it goes into effect they'll effectively be the only game in town.
This is admittedly a bit tinfoil hat, but they wouldn't be the first company to attempt to legislate away the competition.
I mean, they would not be the first big corporation to pull exactly this move.
They are also subsidized by the Chinese government and are paying for users exclusively hosting on MakerWorld. Their move is obviously complete market capture, not sustainable finances at this point.
There is a lot of things going on. We can only speculate, but it sure ain't going to benefit end users.
Please elaborate. From what i know based on prior research, most metro (including NYC) recycling is effectively a scam.
How do you mandate composting in NYC ? Are you implying that all buildings have now must build a 3rd chute specifically for compost ? And who's picking up that compost ? NYC Trash collection ?
I've seen compost vending machines in my visits to NYC and a few other places, but i've yet anyone using them
In a perfect world sure but in the real world if a processor catches something they will disable your processing and freeze any funds while making it a nightmare to remedy, so you really want them doing as little as possible.
What models have you found capable? I was recently recommended Qwen3 Coder Next and I did not find it very successful. I have a good amount of VRAM/RAM so would love to run something locally.
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