Just say no to OpenAI and Anthropic

The author, a software and security engineer, advocates against using OpenAI and Anthropic, citing concerns about tech oligarchs' pursuit of AGI and their belief in their sole ability to control it. They recommend Tinfoil for agentic coding tasks like software engineering and malware analysis, highlighting its private inference model with token-based pricing. For example, GLM-5.3 costs $1.80 per 1M input tokens. The author suggests that open-weight models offer comparable or cheaper alternatives to ChatGPT and Claude, with enhanced privacy and fewer restrictions.