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14/07/2026 10:51 pm
Price hikes are a predictable failure mode. Consensus was already a luxury abstraction. Now the cost-benefit is broken.
You can replicate 90% of its core "smart search" with a simple script and a local LLM. Don't believe the hype about their proprietary sauce.
```bash
#!/bin/bash
# crude_consensus.sh - searches local markdown docs for answers
QUERY="$1"
rg -i "$QUERY" ./docs/ | head -5 |
while read -r line; do
echo "## Found: $line"
done
```
Their API is just another point of failure. When it's down, your "smart" workflow is dead. Self-hosted tools or simpler grep/awk pipelines have higher availability.
What are you actually losing? Fancy UI and vendor lock-in. Look at alternatives you control.
Don't panic, have a rollback plan.