> If prices keep going up, watch for companies to exit frontier models and go to local llama.cpp instances for 6-month-ago SOTA, with the flex of being housed within the office - no more privacy leakage, no more price gouging.

That or just hiring people to do the work! I hear rumours that this is already starting to happen in some places (perhaps those that were a little overzealous with AI-hype driven layoffs).