[sdevonoes]

One difference is: to use a top notch compiler/assembler you don’t need to pay. They are open source and have a lot of support. To use the latest and greatest models (bc no one around likes to use non sota ones) you need to pay a premium price.

Multibillion dollars companies are now the gateway for every line of code you need to write. That’s dystopian. It sucks

[Finbel]

Yes, but that's a completely different argument (that I agree with). Essentially, yes they are conceptually similar but one is bad because you have to pay rent to use it.

[Zetaphor]

Local models are increasingly becoming capable of taking on serious coding tasks that I would have previously sent to a frontier lab