alt Hacker News> I have a 2022 M2 Mac with 64 GB RAM
I closed the article after that.
The author has no idea what a privilege it is to have a machine like that for personal use, and how 99% of the population are not going to afford a setup like that.
Just some back-of-the-envelope maths will tell you that a $20/month Claude subscription makes much more sense financially.
99% of the population don’t code using models, local or remote. So that’s a useless metric.
What % of developers could afford an older MacBook model, second hand? Far, far more than 1%.