Fuck AI

My businesses don't depend on Anthropic, so that doesn't worry me at all - I'm using Claude code as my daily driver when I'm building software just because after trying a bunch of options it has consistently made me more productive than anything else over the last 9 months. Every month or so I try the latest open weight models which I can run locally, when they get good enough for me to have an acceptable productive dev experience fully offline locally I'll be very happy. Gemma 4 is already a major step forwards there and I've used it for some small local hobby projects, but I still get much more done when I'm working on large complex code projects if I use Claude code. If they removed their $200/month subscription and stopped subsidizing compute, I'd likely switch to another tool/chase whoever else is burning VC money for a bit, while accelerating my adoption of local models, accepting lower productivity.