I agree so strongly with Antirez. For me (just a personal take!) the main benefit of AI is helping me improve myself via: better understanding technology that I am currently studying; a springboard for fleshing out new ideas; as an AI coding assistant. For deploying LLM-based applications I have a strong bias for starting with smaller models, looking for a good fit for cost/performance/environmental impact vs. what I need for a specific engineering task. Pardon the plug, but I have a work in progress book "Winning Big with Small AI" that can be read online at https://leanpub.com/read/small-ai