There’s a thing I picked up from my dad and the fitters who worked in my grandfather’s workshop: own your tools. That way you’re not tied to your employer, you can take your tools and your skills to another job any time you please.

I was once on the position where the only laptop I had access to was owned by my employer. It made my teeth itch.

It’s just one more reason I am deeply suspicious of LLMs for coding. And all the other rented software out there, for that matter.