rich1.0mplorentz wrotemplorentz (npub16z…l92l7)https://nostr.now/npub16zsllwrkrwt5emz2805vhjewj6nsjrw0ge0latyrn2jv5gxf5k0q5l92l7njumphttps://nostr.nowAlmost two months after canceling my Cursor subscription and it is going much better than I thought. My AI development stack has been 100% on open weight models for two months, and my personal AI assistant is still going strong on 100% self-hosted models. I haven't used Claude, Codex, Cursor, Grok, or Gemini basically at all the past two months (may have done some website design with Claude one day? Can't remember) and the surprising part is that I don't miss them at all.
- I don't miss the subsidized subscription games that Anthropic is always changing the rules on.
- I don't miss the frontier intelligence - the open models feel 95% as good.
- I don't miss the constant suspicion that these companies (especially Anthropic) are making their models dumber or slower weeks after release.
- I don't miss getting kicked off a model I rely on because a newer version is out (Opus 4.6 was the GOAT, change my mind)
- I don't miss every version of my harness introducing new bugs and changing how things work.
I've been running mostly on deepseek-v4-flash with pi harness, and a homegrown orchestration system using a combo of beads, fragua, herdr, and a custom web UI I call mirador.
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