I think local AI cost me a job

Got headhunted by a VC-backed AI-focused company, ended up skipping past two levels of their application/interview process because of that. Got 15 minute call with the co-founder, hit it off well, but it all seemed to go sour when he asked about my AI setup and I told him I run qwen locally on a graphics card, think it's great that we can have all this completely offline, open models doing some impressive stuff, all the good /r/localllama talking points minus the hype. Even tied it back in to the company because it plus a local model work quite well together. Followed up with a question about whether I use frontier AI, but it was essentially over at that point. Discriminating over AI choice is fucked man. Now, of course, this was a 15 minute call that lasted exactly 15 minutes, and literally anything could've been the trigger. The whole thing felt like "move fast break things", and so it felt like if I didn't pass the vibe-check 100% I was gone. Just wanted to provide one iota of anecdata and spark some discussion.