[disqard]

Under-rated take, thanks for stating this!

Not everyone can plough $$$$ into hardware right now (more power to those who can), so choosing to rent is an A-Ok strategy.

[tpm]

It's ok if you can send your code and data to the provider. Some of us can't.

[_zoltan_]

We're discussing home use.

You can. You just don't want to. Huge difference.

[monooso]

> We're discussing home use.

You may be, but the topic of discussion is whether anyone is using a local model as their main coding tool.

[_zoltan_]

for corporate use it's a mistake not to use a frontier model.

[tpm]

Well plenty of people work from home.

For corporate use, if the corporation would break the law sending anything to the open internet or to the US, then you can't use any model that's not hosted in house. And there are many such cases.