Knowledge was already democratized (books and public education), and now even technology is becoming unaffordable because of some vague promise of super-intelligence (whatever the f**k that means)

Given all the praise I heard about Cursor AI, after a number of months trying to use local LLMs on my laptop with limited success, I decided to spend 20 USD of my hard earned salary to witness this amazing new tool in all of its glory. The results have been a far cry from all the "10x", and "100x" improvements in productivity that have been claimed left and right.

Engineering shall never die.

Hot-take: vibe coding is a nothing burger.

On (re)using old-ish small form factor PCs VS single board computers for clustering.