[pstuart]

I'm hoping that advances in MoE and other improvements in LLMs will translate to allowing self-hosting to cover a good chunk of developer needs, with extending out to providers when it needs more horsepower.

In effect like traditional on-prem services that have cloud services to handle peak loads...

The tech is still relatively new and there's bound to be changes that can enable this -- just like how we went from 8088 to 386 (six years later). That was a ground breaking change and while Moore's law may be dead I expect the cost to drop significantly over time.

One can dream at least.