Then allow me to be judgemental in your stead. I've done a similar setup as the above and completely locally. I dunno how they're paying so much, but that's ridiculously overpriced.

All the other models performed much worse for the skills I'm using. I tried gpt-5.1 (and then 5.4 again recently), and also tried pointing it at OpenRouter and using a few of the cheaper models, and all of them added too much friction for me.

Be judgemental all you want, but I feel like I'm paying for less friction, and also more security since my experiments also showed claude to be the least vulnerable to prompt injection attempts.

> models performed much worse for the skills I'm using

Hard to believe unless your are doing something much more complex than the things you listed

Let's also point out the $180 is going to a hideously evil AI company which pirated millions of books and movies.

It's not the only thing they're doing with it. I mean, the logic is sound - $180 goes into automating bunch of manual processes in personal life, one of which is getting movies, which in some cases involves going out on the high seas.

In a possible defense of grandparent, whenever I pirate movies these days (seldomly), it would be not because I don’t want to pay, but either because I want the offline reliability or because I just can’t find it elsewhere.

(The latter would however not be the case for Titanic, I imagine.)