I see it in a slightly opposite way: even the good models are relatively cheap, and so I worry what we might miss by spending too much time playing with the Sonnets of the world when the Opuses are still objectively a bargain for the power they bring.
I know companies that are using github, even using public repo, and request their teams to not use SOTA models, but are ok with local models.
Just stupid policy.
If you're writing open-source code then there's obviously nothing wrong with publishing it in a public repo. "Using Github" doesn't require you to use their CI, but even then, a human managing secrets for GitHub CI is worlds apart from trying to make sure an internet-connected agent doesn't leak secrets. And if you have sensitive data that you can't send to a remote model but you would benefit from the technology, then processing it with a local model without network access is the obvious way to address that.
