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by Wowfunhappy 353 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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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.