Moving from Claude to Proton Lumo

For the last couple of years I've been using Anthropic's Claude LLMs1 for helping with code – mostly PHP and bash scripting. I've been accessing Claude through a family Kagi subscription. Kagi is probably my most-used subscription, as it removes so many frustrations with "free" search engines like Google and DuckDuckGo, while also allowing some great customisations (e.g. ranking sites down etc). As well as their "Search" subscriptions, Kagi also offers Kagi Assistant, allowing access to all of the so-called "Frontier" LLMs out there. Their privacy policy was part of the draw: When you use the Assistant by Kagi, your data is never used to train AI models (not by us or by the LLM providers), and no account information is shared with the LLM providers. By default, threads are deleted after 24 hours of inactivity. At the same time, as part of my paid Proton account, I've been using their Lumo product for the past year. It's available for free, but paid "Plus" accounts have access to their…