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Re:Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI by zozbot234 on Sunday April 05, 2026 @03:52PM (#47653203)
"Thousands of dollars of GPU" as a one-time expense (not ongoing token spend) is dirt cheap if it meaningfully improves productivity for a dev. And your shitty laptop can probably run local AI that's good enough for Q&A chat.
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Re:Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI by lowsong on Sunday April 05, 2026 @04:35PM (#47653606)
On a SWE salary maybe. If the baseline cost of doing business is a $5k GPU you've excluded like a quarter of the US working population immediately.
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