The pattern I keep seeing with self-hosted AI: it's not about pride of ownership, it's reliability. Running agents on free cloud endpoints, availability is the real problem - peak hour 503s, no SLA, endpoint churn. Whoever owns the compute layer answers "why is this down?" without calling a vendor. The hard half isn't the hardware, it's whether the ops talent can keep up afterwards.
The pattern I keep seeing with self-hosted AI: it's not about pride of ownership, it's reliability. Running agents on free cloud endpoints, availability is the real problem - peak hour 503s, no SLA, endpoint churn. Whoever owns the compute layer answers "why is this down?" without calling a vendor. The hard half isn't the hardware, it's whether the ops talent can keep up afterwards.