It will be like any other technology. Do computers make it faster and easier to design better computers? Yes. But that doesn't mean a step change overnight.

It's kind of like driving a shitbox. It can often drive you from A to B, and some people will try to convince you it's fine. It's not.

There's no logical reason other than absolutely requiring the privacy, doing it for fun, or niche use cases like airplanes and so on. If you can't spend the insanely subsidized $20 for codex, you can use an API for chinese models which will run circles around these tiny models.

If you want something comparable you need the trillion parameter open models like deepseek.

It's the kind of people that want to ban anything because of some theoretical small harm is technically possible. We're lucky it's not more prevalent or we'd still be in the stone age.

On the other hand, large part of it is probably securing control of the company with super voting stocks.

Or sometimes a fix is obvious, but because it requires changing the code of a dependency, it's actually quite tedious to implement.

You should estimate how much time it would have taken a human