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points by cmiles8 1 day ago | 0 comments

That jives with my own datapoints. Of a circle of around 20 very active devs Anthropic went from being the must-have tool to on the chopping block.

Around 50% of that group says they plan to cancel their Claude subscriptions now that their local or open model setup is performing “good enough.”

[–] jatora 1 day ago

I don't believe this one bit. There is no way local models are good enough except for the most basic of coding.

[–] samtheprogram 1 day ago

If you actually know the code and can give guidance, direction, and corrections they absolutely are.

If you are just vibing and managing multiple agents and reviewing at a higher level like architecture, you are right.

[–] cmiles8 1 day ago

Don’t know what to tell you. It’s happening.

[–] propaganja 13 hours ago

But there's just no way.

[–] cuvinny 1 day ago

Why is it unbelievable? I still remember how to program and arch new features and don't need claude to tell me how to do it. It is much more enjoyable to do a little work on your project and offload the grunt work to a weaker model then just being a highly paid merge pr button pusher for whatever opus decides.

[–] ctkhn 21 hours ago

This is what I've been doing with qwen3.8-flash-next. I haven't fully let go of the reins yet but I do like having a junior who can implement my new features as I have designed them

[–] colingauvin 1 day ago

What do you consider a local model? I'm running DeepSeek Flash version 4.1 and it's outstanding.

[–] CharlieDigital 1 day ago

Local models: if they have the hardware to run it.

Open models: we're already seeing this at some scale. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50350004. I do expect to see more of this.

[–] KetoManx64 1 day ago

You haven't spent much time with the latest self hosted models then. Give it a good harness and instructions, access to a web search engine and ability to iterate on problems and they do a good enough job that I'm happy with the results.

[–] the_mar 1 day ago

I hate to break it to you but most people do most people do basic things most of the time