While Im still personally skeptical on the ability of these tools to produce a GOOD software engineer, it’s something I should probably consider testing in a limited capacity.
I’ve noticed Deepseek has a few integrations, both official and hobbyist, with text editors like Claude Code. Plus, I’d rather not pay £20/mo for any of this stuff, let alone to any AI company NOT linked to the CPC.
I might consider a locally hosted model but the upfront cost for anything that can run it decently fast/high params are quite prohibitive. My home server isn’t really set up for good cooling!
Maybe in a few years I’ll have the hardware to host AI locally. Right now my home server is just an i5-9500 (or 8500 i forgor 💀) for the iGPU transcoding on Jellyfin. 3070 would double my power draw immediately at full tilt.
Thankfully, I dont think the mental capacity and knowledge to write code is going to balloon in the future, so eventually something will be adequate enough for my purposes but for local hosting!