Readit NewsYou can use Google docs for free so it takes some dedication to self host that and pay for the server.
Now if big tech charged for everything things would be more like the old days where you might use small tech, such as a local hosting provider that does open source installs.
Do you buy NVIDIA after it has gone up and you missed the boat? Hard to do with an ego, but an index fund will do it with your monthly allocation.
Although index funds rely on other players in the market that actually think. They get the edge but following them a few hours later probably ain't bad.
I have a rule. Any pension-invested money has to stay in index funds.
This obviously isn't core to the point OP is making, but I find it hard to believe that someone of "average" intelligence can't learn about advanced machine learning.
I would say this gets possible at 120 and only easy at 140 at a guess.
Edit: i am serious
"More tests" is not the goal - you need to write high impact tests, you need to think about how to test the most of your app surface with least amount of test code. Sometimes I spend more time on the test code than the actual code (probably normal).
Also, I feel like people would be inclined to go with whatever the LLM gives them, as opposed to really sitting down and thinking about all the unhappy paths and edge cases of UX. Using an autocomplete to "bang it out" seems foolish.
AI could do all this thinking in the future but not yet I believe!
Let alone the codebase is likely a mess of bad practice already (never seen one that isn't! That is life) so often part of the job is leaving the campground a bit better than how you found it.
LLMs can help now on last mile stuff. Fill in this one test. Generate data for 100 test cases. Etc.
This seems to pop up in a lot of areas and I find myself asking is X thing a thing I really desire or is it something that is a natural side effect of some other processes.
You can also ask what is life about?
This is hard to do because the conclusion may need to break moulds, leading to family estrangement and losing friends.
I suspect people who end up having a TED talk in them are people who had the ability through courage or their inherited neural makeup to go it alone despite descenting voices. Or they were raised to be encouraged to do so.
IBM to save it's business had to merge with Red hat almost 50% 50% in 2018.
Microsoft it's security and cloud offering had to, open source it's .net framework, aquire GitHub, ditch Visual Studio fot Visual Studio Code,
ARM is eating the world, it over hauled the x86_x64 architecture, and became the Defacto architecture.
We can go on and on and on and on,that the Open Source business model, became necessary to survive in tech, not just to exist.
If you don't open it, they will eat you up.
Without that leak we would not have the ecosystem evolving around Llama.