AI Coding at Home Without Going Broke

There are three ways to do AI coding at home without spending like a company, and which one fits depends mostly on how much you trust the next year of hardware and model releases. The first is to self host. You buy the machine, run open source models locally, and pay nothing per token after that. The upfront cost is steep and the models you can actually run at home are weaker than what the frontier labs ship, so this only pays off if you can keep the rig busy with long running tasks where a...