A “QuitGPT” campaign is urging people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions
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I agree with you that it needs to be local and self-hosted... I currently have an incredible AI assistant running locally using Qwen3-Coder-Next. It is fast, smart and very capable. However, I could not have gotten it setup as well as I have without the help of Claude Code... and even now, as great as my local model is, it still isn't to the point that it can handle modifying its own code as well as Claude. The future is local, but to help us get there a powerful cloud-based AI adds a lot of value.