> Once it becomes economical to run a Claude 4 class model locally you'll see a lot more people doing that.

By that time Claude 5 (or whatever) will be available over API.

I am grateful for upward pressure from models with published binaries - I do believe this is fundamental floor-raising technology.

Choosing frontier-1 for the sake of privacy, autonomy, etc will always be a hard sell and only ever to a pretty niche market. Even me - I'm ideologically part of this market, but I'm already priced out hardware wise.