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by dangus 345 days ago
I do buy things that make me more productive.

But I’m also not enjoying the idea of software engineering requiring a subscription to a service provider in a similar way to how creative professionals get backed in to adobe creative cloud, because up until this point most developer tools have been free or very cheap.
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Wowfunhappy 345 days ago
I mean, you have the ability to run Deekseek locally if you want and you have the hardware.

I find paying for Claude significantly less offensive than paying for e.g. Creative Cloud, because I'm largely paying for the compute resources.

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dangus 344 days ago
If you have the hardware. And where does this leave the person who owns a used $100 ThinkPad?

Heck, I know a web developer who was using a raspberry pi as their main workstation.

Prior to AI the person with a used ThinkPad wasn’t really at a disadvantage when it came to most development tasks.

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