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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jani@floss.social ("Jani Nikula") wrote:
Using a free software stack, you could be an effective developer with a relatively low budget. A cheap or used laptop and an internet subscription.
LLM coding is changing that too. You either need a very powerful and expensive machine to run a local model, or (currently more likely) an LLM subscription. We are lead to believe you have to pay a monthly fee to be an effective developer.
The prospect of your output as a developer being tied to a proprietary service seems risky at best.