I didn't feel like installing a whole redis-server service on my Windows machine, so instead I built a lightweight yet very capable clone. Maybe you'll find it handy for local development.
Yeah, it's token intensive but worth it. I built a very dumb example harness which used IDA via MCP and analyzed/renamed/commented all ~67k functions in a binary, using Claude Haiku for about $150. A local model could've accomplished it for much less/free. The knowledge base it outputs and the marked up IDA db are super valuable.
I called it "Selfish OSS", how FAANG uses open source communities... I was an open source advocate there for a while, but became disillusioned with it pretty quickly. Some of the engineers care about contributing to the communities, sure, but the companies absolutely do not give a shit about that. It's all about enforcing dominance / crushing competition, and making recruiting easier. What the users want is only supported if it's also what the company wants. If your feature request isn't also desirable to the company, it's not happening, even if you submit the code. I'm now more likely to advocate for closed-source.
For a time, it was a really convenient thing, generally located right at the grocery store. It was easy to grab a movie and return it the next time. It was also pretty easy to copy things.
Just this week at the Twilio Signal conference they announced a partnership and that 10 devs from the Twilio community will be of the first group to build on their SDK... When asked if next year it would be more widely available, he said he would adapt a cheshire cat grin and say maybe... JeffL the CEO of Twilio said he's seen it and it is amazing. http://www.engadget.com/2016/05/25/magic-leap-partners-with-...
I gladly pay for the Medium plan just for my own personal private usage. It's a wonder these services last as long as they do, when you guys don't want to support them.