Using a free software stack, you could be an effective developer with a relatively low budget. A cheap or used laptop and an internet subscription.

LLM coding is changing that too. You either need a very powerful and expensive machine to run a local model, or (currently more likely) an LLM subscription. We are lead to believe you have to pay a monthly fee to be an effective developer.

The prospect of your output as a developer being tied to a proprietary service seems risky at best.

I’m officially done with takes on AI beginning “Ethical concerns aside…”.

No! Stop right there.

Ethical concerns front and center. First thing. Let’s get this out of the way and then see if thre is anything left worth talking about.

Ethics is the formalisation of how we are treating one another as human beings and how we relate to the world around us.

It is *impossible* to put ethics aside.

What you mean is “I don’t want to apologise for my greed and selfishness.”

Say that first.

"LazyVim for Ambitious Developers" is a real treasure. Often times I am aware neovim with lazyvim can do some clever things but unsure how to 'discover' them. This guide has it all in one place.

Chapter 14, for example, details exactly how to make use of abbreviations, snippets and add your own. Not just for developers!

https://lazyvim-ambitious-devs.phillips.codes/

#Neovim #LazyVim

Haven't blogged in ages and this needs to get out of my system (and my drafts folder)…

https://finestructure.co/blog/2026/2/6/thoughts-on-llms

A surge in new datacenters, each with the power demand of 100,000 households and a cooling water demand of 1,000,000 m³ per year to train AI models on material obtained without consent on hardware now unaffordable to consumers so fascism-adjacent tech billionaires can sell us the idea that any skill is now worthless and in doing so creating the largest economic bubble ever while simultaneously destroying society and environment.

I think that about sums it up.

#genai #llm