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Also there are open source grants for Claude and Codex subs you can get off the labs if you need More Tokens (I hope work is paying your API costs). But the Claude sub will force you into using Claude Code or you will be Banned lmao. Codex is a lot more chill on that front.

this was inspired by the part people _actually_ asked about :) per request, I also wrote about my own personal AI development workflow and tooling choices: blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2026/05/ai-t...

Cathartic read. Your resistance towards AI adoption paralleled my own last year, especially where you kept redrawing the line you'd never cross.

well worth the long read

> No one's going to pay extra just so a human can hand-craft a for loop. They will. There's a huge difference between a wooden chair and software. A wooden chair doesn't need maintaining as often as software does. LLMs don't produce maintainable code.

Yeah. I know this is a tough topic for you. Like I said at the start of the post, not trying to convince anyone of anything - just sharing my own experience

very nice post. on the determinism point, I think the relevant point of comparison isn't heretofore existing software, but rather the human-computer systems that produced the software, which are clearly not deterministic

I didn't happen to try the official OpenCode web GUI. Found CodeNomad first and was happy with it. At this point, no reason to look further or try switching :)

You don't have to. You can still treat it as important. It will always need *some* people to keep their skills sharp.

I didn't write this one for clicks or engagement... but yes, after reading dozens of "my craft has been wiped out" posts, I did figure this would resonate with people :)

How _dare_ you, uh... do the exact thing I predicted people would do with my post in the first paragraphs? 🤣

It's very hard to talk about AI without understanding the economics. Once the subsidies inevitably stop we'll see the reality of it. If subscriptions/tokens cost eg 10x more that's going to paint a very different picture. I doubt free AI can be monetized with ads like eg Google Search.