Post #2231597
2026-03-08 13:59 UTC
@tshirtman@mas.to I suppose there are a lot of professions, including in computing, where the regular tools in the field are prohibitively expensive for individuals. In that sense, an LLM subscription is likely a reasonable cost. The cost of keeping up with hardware that can run the latest and greatest local models is less predictable.
That said, it's still a fairly big change for regular software developers.
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@tshirtman@mas.to 2026-03-08 14:03
@jani@floss.social yes, i think software has been quite special in that regard that hobbyists or independents could get started with almost nothing, even a low end computer was good enough to learn whatever language and build websites with. Even if big companies give us nice high end laptops for comfort, it’s not necessary, I remember typing a lot of code on my eeepc back in the days, that was suitable. Now you can still, but with free tools coming from a free tier from anthropic/openai/microsoft or alibaba.