This is why I'm taking a wait-and-see approach to these tools on HN myself. My month with Claude Code (the TUI, not the GUI) was amazing from an IT POV, just s

This is why I'm taking a wait-and-see approach to these tools on HN myself. My month with Claude Code (the TUI, not the GUI) was amazing from an IT POV, just slop-generating niche tools I could quickly implement and audit (not giant-ass projects), but I ain't outsourcing that to another company when Qwen et al are right there for running on my M1 Pro or RTX 3090. I'm looking forward to more folks building these kinds of tools with a stronger focus on portability via API or loading local models, as means of having a genuinely useful assistant or co-programmer rather than paying some big corp way too much money (and letting them use my data) for roughly the same experience.