Don't threaten us with a good time.

That’s not a good time, I love these things. I’ve been able to indulge myself so much. Possibly good for job security but would suck in every other way.

This is why local models are so important. Even if the non-local ones shut down, and even if you can't run local ones on your own hardware, there will still be inference providers willing to serve your requests.

Recently I was thinking about how some (expensive) customer electronics like the Mac Studio can run pretty powerful open source models with a pretty efficient power consumption, that could pretty easily run on private renewable energy, and that are on most (all?) fronts much more powerful than the original ChatGPT especially if connected to a good knowledge base. Meaning that aside from very extreme scenarios I think it is safe to say that there will always be a way not to go back to how we used to code, as long as we can offer the correct hardware and energy. Of course personally I think we will never need to go to such extreme ends... despite knowing of people who seem to seriously think developed countries heavily run out of electricity one day, which, while I reckon there might be tensions, seems like a laughable idea IMHO.