Raspbian creator laments $300 Raspberry Pi as AI demand prices out young programmers
evilsocket · x · 2026-09-10
- The creator of Raspbian reflects that he built it to bring low-cost compute to a new generation of tinkerers and programmers.
- He now despairs that Raspberry Pi prices have climbed to $300+ due to AI-driven hardware shortages, making personal computing unaffordable.
- He adds that bright young people are being discouraged from learning to code because it's framed as a commodity skill AI will handle — "if this is the future we were promised, I'm starting to regret my part in it."
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