My evolution in AI/LLM supported development over the last 3 years:

Google Gemini

Terrible, ridiculously expensive, the results were pretty mediocre. And a provider I didn’t like, but back then there wasn’t anything else around. I was constantly nervously checking the Google Cloud Console to keep the costs under control.
Results: a few crappy little tools.

A brief detour to OpenGPT’s LLM, whatever it was called

Better results, but still ridiculously expensive.

Claude Code

Better and cheaper, with a flat rate of about €100 a month. For a long time, it was dumb as a rock, but the latest models were able to handle a large project.

Z.AI

Chinese models that are much better, without the moralizing, and with a cheaper flat rate of about €55 a month. Fantastic results.

Private provider

This feels like the next level: anonymous, pay as you go with Sats, cheaper overall, and the best models for whatever task. The only minor downside is that the models still talk too much.

And for the last 3 days, I’ve even been using one particular provider for free while they test their infrastructure.

Still: Every model is bad at design and CSS. You have to step in a lot, even with the CSS architecture.

Anyone who hasn’t kept up with this progress and has spent the whole time moaning “AI sucks” has missed out and will have a hard time catching up.

I’ve been developing a token-intensive project with an LLM for 3 days without paying a single Sat. Feels unreal.

Value for value doesn’t work on Nostr. Prove me wrong.

Ist ja klar, dass nur an Erhöhung der Arbeitszeit und gleichzeitig Einschränkung der Privatzeit gedacht wird. Aber nie an die vielen rechtlichen Regularien, die im internationalen Vergleich übermäßig sind oder diese Pseudo-Adels-Kultur die in Management-Strukturen herrscht. Hier macht kaum einer eine Tellerwäscher-Karriere an die Spitze, sondern wird nach Geburtsstand quer in Führungspositionen hinein geschleudert. Der Pöbel muss strenger in die Verantwortung genommen werden, das scheint das einzige Problem zu sein. Talent und Schlüssel-Performance wird hier auch nie belohnt, sonder schön mit der Begründung "für das Team" gleichgeschaltet. Peitsche statt Zuckerbrot.