Dev: I regret buying software licenses, should have bought more compute
cephaloform · x · 2026-10-26
A developer posts that they low-key regret buying licenses for any software, feeling the money could have just gone toward more compute — a sentiment reflecting the compute-over-software mindset in the AI circle.
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