it’s going to be real hard to pry the carburetors out of this guy’s cold dead hands!

You clearly have never used these other tools. Mixtral / Deepseek perform very well on coding challenges. I've used them against local code without issues, sometimes they are a bit optimistic and produce too much, but thats far better than producing too little (like GPT4 does).

Openai just invisibly dropped my API requests to a lower model with a 4k context limit. And my commit scripts started failing for being over the context limit. It's buried in the docs somewhere that low tier api users will be served on lower models during peek times.

So,I guess they're like a Milwaukee Drill that will sometimes refuse to work unless you buy more drill credits.

A self-hosted solution is a common requirement for security reasons.