They definitely all play off emotions and have their own way to tapping into addictive behaviors. Youtube doom scrolling, reading endless reddits, etc. Lots of apps trying to get you hooked.

I totally agree. Is a local model running on your laptop going to outperform the latest frontier model? No, but that's not the point. Many of the use cases folks have can be done well with these newer smaller models. What amazes me is that these keep getting better with existing hardware you have. It's been fun to benchmark and test as these keep coming out.

As a VIM guy myself, this was huge. I never felt like I was missing out having done this.

I've only been using vim (well, neovim) for a few months, but I just assumed everyone mapped ESC to the caps lock key. Nearly every beginner tutorial recommended it, for good reason.