It’s weird that programmers will champion paying for Llm but not ad-free web search.
Local models are not quite there yet. For now, use the evil bad tools to prepare for the good free tools when they do get there. It's a self-correcting form of technical debt that we will never have to pay down.
Why do I have to prepare? Once the good free tools are available, it should just work no?
As an Emacs user, I anticipate further programming to refine how the glove fits the hand. The solutions we will want as individuals have a lot of dispersion, so I cannot rely on others for everything.
There are plenty of times where I download what others have written and use it as it is, within the bounds of some switches and knobs. Do you want to have such a hands off approach with your primary interface to a computer?