I think it's important to be able to do both so you can stay in control of the price to value created relationship.

In last year, some people were publishing aider /ollama/open router [1] and now thankfully people are publishing all around about pi/qwen/llama.cpp/openrouter. It's widespread.

[1] https://alexhans.github.io/posts/aider-with-open-router.html