I think knowledge is power.

I think that the more people who try local models (especially the larger ones) the better.

I sometimes get the impression that many people claiming that local models are as good as frontier models work in "token poor" environments. If you can't build large-scale programs using at least Opus 4.5+ then it's difficult to compare. They compare something like Qwen 27B with Sonnet and see that it is nearly as good, but miss that the frontier models are a lot better.

That knowledge is power, too.

I personally can help making local models more accessible. I can't make Opus cheaper.