Why We Rent Most of Our AI (and Self-Host the Rest)
There’s a moment in every self-hoster’s life when you realize you’ve stopped renting and started owning. For me it wasn’t dramatic. No server fire, no cloud bill shock. It was the quiet realization that everything I depended on was a service someone else could change, raise the price of, or simply take away. Files, email, media — one by one, I brought them home. The same logic eventually reached the most interesting thing I run: the intelligence. And here’s the confession. That one, I still rent. Mostly.
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