The laptops generating income are the relevant metric here; most software developers would struggle with a 4GB Pentium these days. It matters to your company and your economy if your engineers can work.

Compared to laptop quality, I suspect model quality will be a much bigger competitive advantage in the tournament of the marketplace. High-quality laptops are still limited by the quality of the software developer.

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jacquesm 2 hours ago | parent [-]

> High-quality laptops are still limited by the quality of the software developer.

For now it is exactly the same with the models.

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stickfigure an hour ago | parent [-]

You're not wrong but the amount of leverage you get out of a better model dwarfs the leverage you get out of a better laptop. Almost to the point that these are different categories of thing.

Also... employment in some parts of the stack is genuinely going away. I don't even look at CSS anymore.

	▲	jacquesm an hour ago \| parent [-]
		> the amount of leverage you get out of a better model dwarfs the leverage you get out of a better laptop To some degree, yes. But 'dwarfs' isn't really the term I would use. It is a bit slower, but the upsides are >> than the downsides for me. Not having Sam, Dario or Xi's minions looking over my shoulder matters to me more than any technological edge. > Also... employment in some parts of the stack is genuinely going away. I don't even look at CSS anymore. Yes, that's a fact, but that's orthogonal. I haven't touched either HTML or CSS in a long time now and yet I've cobbled together (I wouldn't claim ownership) a lot of stuff that 'just works'. I also would not expose that stuff to the world at large because I suspect it isn't nearly as secure as it looks.