> especially when these LLM tools are going to get crazy expensive because at some point they will need to be sustainably funded You say this with such certain

> especially when these LLM tools are going to get crazy expensive because at some point they will need to be sustainably funded You say this with such certainty when progress is actually proving otherwise. LLMS are only going to get cheaper. There will always be expensive models, because they use the latest tech and infra, but that doesn't mean we need them for everything... But year after year we see free or local LLMs become more powerful.