Decentralized AI wins, open models win.
I use AI 10 hours a day easily. Pretty much every day. I build the most advanced, challenging projects you can build.
So I am the first to notice when the AI is slacking or not able to do tasks, as the tasks I require are novel and take a lot to get done.
I've been through every bump, when Claude degraded randomly, I felt it instantly. Codex, yes over the last week is has gotten significantly worse, facts. I don't even care that I eat through a week's quota in 1 day (I used to spend 10K a month on centralized AI alone) - but the quality is all I care about.
But one thing I have noticed that is a constant, my local AI setup (deAI, soon everyone can join and benefit from what I am benefiting from) has only gotten better. Not once have I been coding with deAI and thought it was having a bad day, that it was degrading. Actually, quite the opposite, I am always pleasantly surprised by it and how much it gets better with each use.
The writting is on the wall. Your AI rates will skyrocket as you get lower quality products in return, and deAI will be your lifeboat, because AI isn't something that is optional. If you want to compete, you need it, so better strap in and get something cemented down. This isn't a "trust the centralized companies" game we can play again, this one is for keeps.