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by Forgeties79 35 days ago
> Software Engineers are willing to spend their own money on AI.

Unless you’re a freelancer you should never pay for your tools. You’re literally paying your company to do their work. If they want the benefits of an LLM they can pay for it. Otherwise they get what you came with: your hands and skills.

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The company I work for pays for my tokens, but I find enough joy in doing weekend projects supercharged by AI to chip in myself too