> The "no LLM" stance makes sense if you don't have guardrails. With the right constraints, AI-assisted code is faster AND safer than solo human development — because the agent never gets tired, never rushes before a deadline, and never thinks "I'll test that later."

Ironically I had a bunch of cases recently where CC would stop saying stuff like "this test problem is unrelated/a pre-existing issue when it had no proof of this and it was clearly not true (the branch built/tests were passing before the LLM changes).

No my logic is "if everyone had the chance to do what they wanted nobody would do what is needed".

The only reason you can "afford" anything is because other people do shit they would rather not, but do so for the money. If people could actually "afford to make choices" you'd find out pretty soon how dependent you are on others doing the dirty work for you to maintain your living standard.

Like sure things aren't perfect, not everyone is compensated proportionally to their contributions, no perfect markets and you can certainly improve things, but "I hate this planet" vibe when the default is hunter gatherer I feel like is majorly lacking perspective.

This is basically the performance of M1 with 8GB ram (with shittier USB/connectivity). I've seen developers who used the 8GB air a few years ago on a project. It would't work for me (even the 24GB air I have is swapping), but I can see this working for students without any problems.

Buying this for a kid would be a no-brainer for me - especially if it was on a discount (and it's not uncommon for Apple stuff to get 10-20% discount drops at retailers). Even the USB 3.0 is enough to power an audio interface - should be good enough to run some basic DAW, a MIDI keyboard, electronic drums etc. Will probably pick it up for my son at some point to motivate him to learn to type.

I don't get where this class/status/worthiness ties into HN comments ?

I get decent feedback most of the time, and I read interesting stuff, it's the easiest way I found to stay in the loop in our industry. What are you guys commenting for ?