Imagine that Anthropic, or whatever company du jour at some point, starts charging a quarter of your income. Maybe even a third and you have no real alternatives because there is no open source alternative.

What feels like opium right now won’t stay that way by accident. The dealers know exactly how to weave it into your life, how to make it indispensable, whether you'll truly need it or not. And yet I'm a user myself and I know all that.