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AI Made Hobby Coding Expensive Again

https://www.viblo.se/posts/ai-hobbycoding/

3•viblo•1h ago

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al_borland•1h ago

The free tools are still free. If coding is the hobby, why would someone want to delegate their hobby to an agent? Is the goal of a hobby the journey or the destination?

JohnFen•1h ago

Nobody's forcing anybody to use LLMs for hobby projects. You don't have to take on the expense if you don't want to.

beardyw•1h ago

Completely unhinged.

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