Jeff Geerling (@geerlingguy): "I don't know who you are, but I'm certainly not Ethan, and I've never paid a dime for any LLM. Nor do I work for AMD.

Maybe don't rip off other people's video content and make up stories about it ;)" | XCancel

Jeff Geerling

@geerlingguy

1h

I don't know who you are, but I'm certainly not Ethan, and I've never paid a dime for any LLM. Nor do I work for AMD.

Maybe don't rip off other people's video content and make up stories about it ;)

Antid

@antisadh

16h

A 28 YEAR OLD AMD ENGINEER WIRED 4 FRAMEWORK DESKTOPS INTO A CLOSET RACK AND KILLED A $5,280/YEAR AI STACK FOR $36 A MONTH

ethan is 28, lives in austin, works as a backend engineer and was paying $440 a month across claude code max, chatgpt pro, gemini advanced and cursor for his side projects

he saw the math, ordered 4 framework desktop nodes with AMD ryzen AI max+ 395 chips, wired them into an 8U black T1 mini rack in his closet with a 5 gigabit ethernet switch

each node carries 128GB of unified memory and 110GB of usable VRAM on linux, the cluster runs qwen 3.6 235B fully and smoothly with no quantization, no rate limits, no per token fees

total hardware cost $6,800 once, ongoing cost $36 a month in electricity, break even at 15 months on his old subscription stack and pure savings after that for the next 5 years

his home assistant dashboard tracks the power draw in real time, the rack runs cooler than his gaming PC and pulls less wattage than the dishwasher he runs every night

the window is open, follow and bookmark before it closes

Community note

The described AI cluster was built by independent developer Jeff Geerling, not a 28-year-old AMD engineer named Ethan. jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/i-cl…

Jun 14, 2026 · 8:18 PM UTC

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Framework

@FrameworkPuter

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Replying to @geerlingguy

Are you 28 at least?

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Jeff Geerling

@geerlingguy

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"At least" 28, yes. And then some 😜

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Charles

@unsignedbytes

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Replying to @geerlingguy

So much fake stuff and stolen content now. People have no shame!

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Curt

@cpjet64

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Replying to @geerlingguy

The best thing to do about these thieves is to summon @nikitabier because homie has been doing gods work with all this stolen content reposting.

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B@massbtaye

1h

Replying to @geerlingguy

Hey look on the bright side, you’re 28 years old again.

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Robert Sirchia

@robertsirc

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Replying to @geerlingguy

Dude called you Ethan. 😂

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TacoGS@tacogs

1h

Replying to @geerlingguy

Maybe you're quantum entangled with this guy Ethan in Texas.

Requested a community note because it takes 2 seconds.

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Tom Keresztes@tomcr2100

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Replying to @geerlingguy

Never too late to change your name 😆

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˗ˏˋ Jesse Hanley ˎˊ˗

@jessethanley

53m

Replying to @geerlingguy

Sure but I (and others) may not have seen this video or known what you were up to without the repost.

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Tony Lofreso Jr.@tlofreso

1h

Replying to @geerlingguy

Red shirt Ethan or it didn’t happen. Amateur hour with antid here…

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Austin Foss@_Austin_Foss

1h

Replying to @geerlingguy

Out of curiosity what is the peak power draw?

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SoothSpider 🇨🇦🍁🧡真🔬💻Ω 🐶😼🌎@SoothSpider

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Replying to @geerlingguy

🤔🤔🤔 That's what Ethan would probably say. 🤔🤔🤔

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Leeeeroy Jennnnkins@dpattenjr

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Replying to @geerlingguy

X has a serious problem with foreign accounts gaming the system. They need to demonetize the third world and Eastern Europe. (less Poland)

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Wes Lorenzini 🧑‍💻🤖

@wes321

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Matthew Garbett

@LinkofHyrule89

1h

Replying to @geerlingguy

Can you actually run models that even compare to the paid ones for coding tasks and such?

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lilfrogdev

@lilfrogdev

34m

Replying to @geerlingguy

are u 28? need to know

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azrulite@ashrealite

33m

Replying to @geerlingguy

So you're a 28 year old backend developer? Gotcha.

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Ben@Ben75528812

1h

Replying to @geerlingguy

But the twitter post says otherwise...

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Aurora 🌙@alepouna

1h

Replying to @geerlingguy

they are usually bots, you can request a takedown idk if twitter handles it though

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🤔 #SkolVikings@darthVikes

19m

Replying to @geerlingguy

Ever run out of credits? How do you get more? Wait?

Brett@SirCrest

30m

Replying to @geerlingguy

Congrats on being 28 though

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hand7s@__hand7s

1h

Replying to @geerlingguy

and original post got community noted!

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Ghost Senshi 🌌📸

@AbhLafiel

1h

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Those foreign accounts are so weird

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david 🏳️‍🌈@dmarcosm98

1h

Replying to @geerlingguy

are you 28 tho?

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Chris Segroves (Sermon Statistics in Bio)@Chris_Segroves

1h

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Whatever Ethan!

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E4RLAT@E4RLAT

1h

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It’s your famous doppelgänger ethan

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