AI is a tool. the use of this tool to deliver something unrelated is... unrelated

Does self-hosting need to be all or nothing?

I didn’t get that from their comment at all

"It's weird seeing someone pay for food when they have a garden at home."

LLMs can be self hosted though. Using Claude to build a self hosting platform is a bit like telling people they should be vegan while you're eating a bacon sandwich.

In what way are those remotely similar?

Veganism is incompatible with bacon. You can self-host, and also pay for cloud services when they are better than what you can self-host.

If anything it's like suggesting making food instead of getting takeout while buying bread from the store, because it's better than what you can make at home.

It's weird seeing someone promote home gardening by selling grocery store products.