> There is a certain personality type that cannot tolerate any uncertainty and must lock everything in right now against all future possibilities.

I thought HN banned personal attacks. I'm in this sentence and I don't like it. /s

I just buy the good apple hardware because it's good, and it also happens to run local models. It's not as good for the dollar, don't get me wrong, but I'm not going to develop iOS without a mac, that's even more questionable than buying a strix or whatever.

Welcome to production software, where you really want to pin all uncertainties and dependencies, and roll back in case a major problem occurs.