alt Hacker NewsYou don't need to be able to self-host it. It's fine to pay someone else for it. If it's open-source, competition will ensure inference providers support it well enough, and if an open-source provider is dumb enough to nerf their model for (useful) coding tasks, there's plenty of incentive for inference companies to do some lightweight finetuning to restore the capability.
I disagree, I think being able to self-host it to some extent is very important.
Personal computing democratized the means of (software) production and enabled real upward class mobility for a lot of people.
The efforts happening now are threatening to completely lock up the ability to compute locally, seizing the means of production from us. That must not happen.