Open models exclusively on hardware I own... despite my employer both demanding 'the frontier' and providing unlimited spend/quota. Two main points:

    1: primarily for repetitive/arduous things I'm not concerned with outsourcing. Editor features on steroids, basically.
    2: testing how my lack of *tracked* token usage, but still delivering, is handled by the powers that be.

To get us on the lab gravy train, we were told results matter and how the thing is made doesn't; we'll see. Not left behind yet :)