I mean you can self host your own local models, a decent computer can run Qwen and at scale it would be much cheaper per token to run servers serving a 120B ish model or even something like Deepseek than it would cost to pay Anthropic for Claude. It wouldn’t be quite as good as Claude but it’s probably good enough for most things tbh
Sure, just write one in Perl over the week end.
I mean you can self host your own local models, a decent computer can run Qwen and at scale it would be much cheaper per token to run servers serving a 120B ish model or even something like Deepseek than it would cost to pay Anthropic for Claude. It wouldn’t be quite as good as Claude but it’s probably good enough for most things tbh