Sure, like how we all self-host our own email servers and photo albums? Honestly, I think you’re about as wrong as you could possibly be, both on timelines, and

Sure, like how we all self-host our own email servers and photo albums? Honestly, I think you’re about as wrong as you could possibly be, both on timelines, and in that I’d argue the arc of consumer tech adoption bends towards centralisation most often. Standards are already emerging, including MCP, and to say that simply because they’ll evolve and be replaced over time means they’re not ‘real’ now is ridiculous. Look at the early internet and web as examples. Local models, even accounting for reasonable progress and device performance improvements, will always, inherently, be behind the eight ball compared to SOTA models. While they may be sufficient for the low hanging fruit, I’d not bet against the frontier models being every bit as compelling relatively speaking. Using weasel words like ‘real’ and ‘x is the future’ is astoundingly arrogant, and anyone claiming with confidence that they’ve got any idea where we’re heading is almost assuredly wrong.