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0 pointsAnotherGoodName8mo ago0 comments

Buy things that make you more productive. Seriously. Assuming you’re not in some horrible trap of no money to buy things that improve your life you’re being ridiculous by not doing it.

Also i code all day and have yet to hit the $10/month cap on claude that the jetbrains library offer.

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dangus8mo 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.

Wowfunhappy8mo 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.

dangus8mo 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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0 pointsAnotherGoodName8mo ago0 comments

Buy things that make you more productive. Seriously. Assuming you’re not in some horrible trap of no money to buy things that improve your life you’re being ridiculous by not doing it.

Also i code all day and have yet to hit the $10/month cap on claude that the jetbrains library offer.

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dangus8mo ago

I do buy things that make me more productive.

Wowfunhappy8mo 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.

dangus8mo 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.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse