Hours of internet outage, zero workflow interruption: all thanks to open models
cephaloform · x · 2026-10-31
cephaloform shares that an unplanned multi-hour internet outage didn't interrupt his workflow at all because he only uses open models, quipping that Anthropic and OpenAI "will never be there for you like Qwen, DeepSeek and Zhipu" — open weights beat closed APIs when connectivity fails.
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