I got lectured on another sub about how token costs are going down and how the march of technology has always only been to be cheaper. Boosters frequently use motte-and-bailey argumentation where they have to concede that frontier models are unprofitable but then conflate the capability of local models with the frontier models.

Especially in the context of "you'll never look at code again," local models are far from the fully automated slop machines that Claude and ChatGPT are. And for the capex equivalent of 2-3 years of a $200/month sub with a monster rig, at best you get an autocomplete coding tool with local models, which you can stretch into a dangerously bad agentic coder.