Imagine a country where no one can drive, and all transportation relies on a few AI monopolies.
If you don’t pay them, you can walk by feet. If they ban you, you can walk by feet. If their infrastructure is damaged, no one and nothing will be able to move.
Or buy a cheap Ebike.
Get your own compute, require and force openweights and right to compute. Make sure NV and AMD keep making prosumer hardware that can run Kimi k3
You’re more than welcome to keep writing code by hand. It’s not illegal… wouldn’t recommend it though.
Good point about infra, but that’s already the case with Cloudflare, GitHub, aws, etc
I'm reminded of the visual novel "Root Double -Before Crime * After Days-" where one guy in town having a manual petrol-powered car instead of using robotaxis is a significant plot point.