Am I part of this category? I have a rather powerful home server that, among other things, I use to:
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Run a decent coding LLM that helps me vomit up simple python functions for moving around lots of data between CSVs and graphing stuff, set up new docker containers with less trial and error, and run ML experiments on my GPU that previously took me hours to set up. I'm a biologist and previously I could run a commandline without breaking a computer but was very slow and non-native, now I can do simple non-security-critical things faster and actually understand novel error messages. Of note I never have that hooked up in a way that lets it run things just produce text that I can then do things with and maybe run myself.
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Run my own local RAG system with embedding models and a small shitty LLM to search a hundred gigabytes of scientific papers and other PDFs semantically for things relevant to roughly paragraph length queries.
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Run my own web metasearch engine with RAG and embedding models pointed at the internet, such that when I remember a paper I read fifteen years ago and provide a three sentence description it reliably finds it or finds lots of relevant old research (or old news articles I remember) when I give it a query and let it churn for five minutes.
I feel like the important thing here is that I almost exclusively use them as information channels that take something at one end and spit it back out the other in a different or filtered form rather than making stuff, or effectively a piece of reference material for something that is formally verifiable and NOT CRITICAL FOR A SYSTEM TO FUNCTION. I also feel like all the actual innovations are more than a year old and do not understand people hanging excitedly on every little development.