[owebmaster]

Important to remind people this is only true if you have a profitable product, otherwise you’re spending money you haven’t earned.

[jasonjmcghee]

If your expectation is to produce the same amount of output, you could argue when paying for AI tools, you're choosing to spend money to gain free time.

4 hours coding project X or 3 hours and a short hike with your partner / friends etc

[jjmarr]

If what I'm doing doesn't have a positive expected value, the correct move isn't to use inferior dev tooling to save money, it's to stop working on it entirely.

[oezi]

There might be value but you might not receive any of it. Most salaried employees won't see returns.

[ngruhn]

Come on, every hobby has negative expected value. You're not doing it for the money but it still makes sense to save money.