CHINESE DEVS ARE MAKING $400,000 RUNNING LOCAL AI WHILE THEIR OFFICE PAYS $200/MONTH PER ENGINEER FOR THE SAME THING.
Everyone around them has a subscription. Claude, Cursor, Codex, ChatGPT. The invoices stack up every single month.
They put Mac Minis under their desks and run everything locally on Ollama.
Same code. Same output. Same office. Different bill.
Pause at 0:09 — watch the curved monitor packed with terminals, dashboards and interfaces. That is what $200 a month looks like when you rent intelligence. Their setup looks identical and costs $3.
Uber burned their entire 2026 AI budget on Claude Code for 5,000 engineers.
These guys solved it with one box under a desk and kept the difference.
Buy the Mac Mini. Install Ollama. Stop paying forever.
Full story in the video.