nobody with the competence to judge the quality difference between frontier models and local models would ever, in a million years, use local models
But the in a million years bit, even taken as rhetorical bombast, is of course silly. The difference between local models and the frontier models is ever shrinking. Extrapolating out and eventually, sooner rather than later, the difference is going to be a wash.
Unless all of the vendors stop progressing open local models, the future is clearly there. It's why I think AI is important and valuable, but also the current leaders have a dubious financial path forward.
He's pretending like there's any magic to claude or the others, there isn't