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Bur the implication here in the parent comment is that for ‘real dev work’ to be done you must be running an LLM, and therefore you can’t do it on a MacBook anymore.

Turns out you can still accomplish stuff with a text editor and compiler.

Of course we can code without a LLM, but if we want to, as the sibling comment says, don't run a local LLM on a laptop. I'm offloading the LLM to the LLM vendor, like most of us IMO. The CPU is still busier then it used to be, because of the local harness.

> There was a lovely window of a few years when processors were fast enough and low-power enough that real development work could trivially happen on a Macbook Air in a lounge.

I was responding to this. I am appalled that anyone thinks (and is willing to say out loud in public) that they cannot do "real dev work" without an LLM.

So don’t run a local LLM?