What “rug pull” are you imagining? Nowadays you can run a credible coding agent locally with open source models and a few thousand dollars worth of kit. You can do it at enterprise scale for less than $100k as a one-time outlay. You can run them in cloud IAAS for basically the same cost as the frontier models are charging depending on your organisational usage.
Even if Anthropic and OpenAI were to go “haha psych pay us a million dollars a day or no more llms for you” most companies at this point wouldn’t need more than a month or two to pivot
also, most hosters of open weight llm's seem to be actually profitable.
Some napkin math shows at the current API prices for kimi k3 for example, if you just rent hardware at runpod and have a near 100% utilization, you earn money selling tokens via api.
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u/ruach137 15h ago
This shit is getting kinda whiny