That’s like saying cloud computing is spiritually incompatible with tinkering.

It is. You can't tinker with someone else's machine.

You can’t tinker with someone else’s machine but you can tinker through it.

They may well do but in practice if you want to embody the hacker spirit, the best thing is to hack rather than trying to get some clearly inadequate local LLM to do it.

Yo, MTP for Qwen is sick, thank you! Your work is invaluable.

But if I run the model locally I have to pay for it, whereas with Claude I can, oh wait I just hit my 5 hour free limit with 2 messages.