> We need more voices like this to cut through the bullshit.

Open models are not bullshit, they work fine for many cases and newer techniques like SSD offload make even 500B+ models accessible for simple uses (NOT real-time agentic coding!) on very limited hardware. Of course if you want the full-featured experience it's going to cost a lot.

I fell for this stuff, went into the open+local model rabbit hole, and am finally out of it. What a waste of time and money!

People that love open models dramatically overstate how good the benchmaxxed open models are. They are nowhere near Opus.