[anonzzzies]

You forget that, especially on HN, many people are scaremongering that prices will soon skyrocket. Then it will be another story... I easily run $4k+/mo on my claude sub; if I would have to pay that, I definitely would spend 12k on hardware instead and accept a dumber helper.

[jonfw]

You are not stuck between public API pricing for frontier models via Claude and self hosted.

Remember that there are other LLM providers, open models, and previous gen models, that are way cheaper that frontier Claude and still way better than what can realistically run locally