[gedy]

Man I really hope so, as, as much as I like Claude Code, I hate the company paying for it and tracking your usage, bullshit management control, etc. I feel like I'm training my replacement. Things feel like they are tightening vs more power and freedom.

On device I would gladly pay for good hardware - it's my machine and I'm using as I see fit like an IDE.

[aurareturn]

When local LLMs get good enough for you to use delightfully, cloud LLMs will have gotten so much smarter that you'll still use it for stuff that needs more intelligence.

[gedy]

True, but I'm already producing code/features faster than company knows what to do with, (even though every company says "omg we need this yesterday", etc). Even coding before AI was basically same.

Code tools that free my time up is very nice.

[dgb23]

That's not necessarily the case. So far, commercial cloud LLMs have maintained a head-start, but there is no law of nature that prevents us from having competitive open models.

In fact the space seems to move at a rapid pace as more and more specialized models come out. There's a possible trajectory where open weight models will compete side by side or even be preferable for many use cases, just like what happened with OS's and SQL DB's.