Remember when you could buy a mid-range GPU without taking out a second mortgage? Yeah, me neither. First the crypto miners showed up with their mining rigs, turning every GPU launch into a blood sport. Just when we thought the crypto winter would save us, along came the AI boom and now every startup bro needs a rack of 4090s to train their "revolutionary" chatbot that's definitely not just a wrapper around an existing API. Meanwhile, regular developers just want to run some local models or compile shaders without selling a kidney. The GPU market has become a three-way cage match between people who want to play games, people who want to get rich quick, and people who want to build the next AI unicorn. Spoiler alert: the average developer loses every time. At this point, integrated graphics are starting to look pretty good, right? Right?