This is a bit of a strawman. The parent comment wasn't suggesting that the inherent defects magically disappear nor was it suggesting that local inference today is sufficient for all tasks.
At the heart of it, self-hosting liberates your use cases from all the horribly opaque configuration, shadow prompting, etc. And local models are only getting better and more diverse every month.
At the heart of it, self-hosting liberates your use cases from all the horribly opaque configuration, shadow prompting, etc. And local models are only getting better and more diverse every month.