I have been hearing the exact same takes every single day for over a year now.
Let me break it down for you again:
1. Local AI running on setups like DGX Sparks or Mac Studio is already hitting faster tokens per second than most Cloud AI.
2. Back when $20 subs were standard, people claimed local rigs cost years of subscription fees.
Now people burn through $500 monthly plans and still hit usage caps. It will only get more expensive.
3. People who bought their hardware a year ago, or even just a few weeks ago, are already seeing up to a 200% return simply from hardware price jumps.
4. Local AI never gets nerfed overnight, and it never goes down because of server outages.
5. Absolute raw intelligence is slightly behind top cloud models, but it easily matches last gen flagships.
That is more than enough for most real work. On top of that, you get zero censorship and full privacy that Cloud AI cannot offer.
There is a hard limit on what a DGX Spark can do. The machines are slow as hell.
You could rent years of cloud GPUs for a fraction of the price and at multiples the speed.
Today, a spark is useless. In 3 years? A DGX spark is worth less than an old laptop.