Re enshitification that’s my thinking about LLMs right now. The managed chat-services offer nice UX… now… but surely at some point it will be crap and I’ll have to start self-hosting anyway… so why not jump to the last step right away and see how it goes. I can always revert if homemade solution turns out disastrous.

Also, if I’m making an effort to ditch comfortable product already, it’s only a little bit more effort to jump on the open source bandwagon rather than another corporate train.