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bit1993 on July 10, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Measuring the impact of AI on experienced open-sou...

It used to be that all you required to program was a computer and to RTFM but now we need to pay for API "tokens" and pray that there are no rug pull in the future.

danparsonson on July 10, 2025 [–]

"It used to be that all you required to write was a pen and paper but now we need to pay for 'electricity'..."

You can still do those things.

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