Does any of you bother the fact that now you have to pay money in order to do your job? I mean AI model subscriptions. Somehow it feels wrong for me to pay for tools that are trying to replace me.

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2sk21 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

IDEs used to be extremely expensive back in the 1990s. IDEs such as Microsoft Visual Studio and IBM's Visual age for Java were quite expensive subscription as I recall. subsequently, open source IDEs like Eclipse and VisualStudio seem to have become the norm.

	▲	qingcharles 30 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I used to pay a fortune for a full Visual Studio + full MSDN experience every year until I eventually earned a free ride. Wild how much you can get for free now. Amazing free IDEs. Every LLM offers excellent free plans if you are on a zero budget. $10/mo GitHub Copilot is an absurd deal that has to be a loss in terms of pure compute cost.
	▲	abeyer 10 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Visual Studio has never been open source, though some of the underlying build tools and compilers are. Visual Studio Code is a different thing... and claims to be open source, but by intent and approach really is closer to source available.
	▲	aeonik 7 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Compilers and programming languages themselves used to be hideously expensive as well.

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threetonesun 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Between subscription software and subscription AI and the rising prices of computer hardware, the idea of a "personal computer" is quickly dying.

	▲	Aldipower 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Not for me.

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wild_egg 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Your employer is not paying for these things?

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mptest 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

paying to train* and fund the research for the tools to replace us