Why not stop paying for ChatGPT and Claude, then?

Like, seriously, while you can, invest in your own stack or find cloud alternatives.

If you actually want to use these products, the easiest way you will contribute to changing their money-grubbing minds about their policies and offerings, is to stop giving them yours.

Peace of mind and control of your destiny is worth a bit of cash. And there's seemingly little risk of any kit you buy radically depreciating in cost.

I am still really cynical about all of this BS but I must say I am fully impressed by the diligence and quality of some of the open source tooling — Unsloth Studio, Opencode, Paseo, Pi, etc.

And I look at it and think: putting aside local models (and I am not sure you should, even now), is this stuff really so inferior that it's worth risking a critical dependency on a commercial cloud product that might get switched off with no notice?