or 3) start running local models that are competent for most tasks now like Qwen3.6-27B and only use frontier models when the local model gets stuck.
If big AI does crash out, it would be an absolute gold-mine for local LLM. Cheap, efficient, Nvidia GPUs, and RAM that can run the best local models already available, will be a real boon.
PS - And as great as Qwen3.6-27B is, how large you can scale it (i.e. how big of a context/project) is mostly hardware constrained.