[ankurdhama]

> What are your philosophical thoughts on paying a subscription to get your work done?

You are paying to get the work done much quicker. You are saving time, if you don't think your time has more value than the cost of AI agent then you should not pay for these tools.

> The new norm?

As long as companies are ok to pay for these tools and they believe that these do provide value, yes this is going to be the new norm.

> Lets see what local models can do?

My hope is that local models become as good as cloud models but the tricky part is all the AI companies would prefer to have big giant cloud models instead of innovating on optimization so that even small models can do good work.