This is a great note for AI developers, but my use case around NixOS is targetted to consumer users. The value is in self-hosted services (clouds, VPNs, etc.) without needing to be technical, and supporting the standard suite of stuff the average consumer needs/uses. (Word processor, email, internet, PDF, zoom)

My biggest concern here is not feature parity with the latest in AI; but in usability, or maybe irrelevance (what happened to thin clients?). My hope is that what stopped thin client adoption was just paying cloud providers forever, and that the average consumer that has a home computer can use that computer as a NAS to actually be their own iCloud / OneDrive, with the ability to deploy their 'home machine' on any laptop.

But more and more tools will use AI. What if your self-hosted e-mail server uses AI to filter spam messages, for example? Or what if the consumer wants to run a drawing program that can do diffusion-style gen-AI?