Forget the massive GPU clusters. According to Tim Dettmers, research scientist at Ai2, you can build a state-of-the-art AI coding agent with what he calls a "hot plate and a frying pan." This week on Dev Interrupted, Andrew sits down with Tim to unpack how his resource-strapped team built the SERA model using a fraction of the compute power of major labs. They explore the tactical engineering behind synthesizing training data from private codebases without verification tests, proving that the open-source community is uniquely positioned to out-specialize frontier models. Finally, Tim shares his contrarian take on the future of token economics, explaining why the cost of AI might actually spike as compute efficiency hits a physical wall.

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The best model for your team? You haven’t invented it yet. | Ai2’s Tim Dettmers