points by ChrisRR 1 day ago | 0 comments
I'm always surprised that devs need such high spec machines just for developing software. Unless you're developing games or scientific computing software or similar, I din't know what the power would be used for.
My dev machine is an i5 of some description about 6 years old, that's about all I could tell you off the top of my head because I've never worried about needing slightly faster compiles. (Ignoring running local LLMs of course. Currently they can't compete with Opus 5.5)
[–] logotype 1 day ago
I'm developing an inference engine and need access to the latest Neural Accelerator features, and therefore need to keep up to date with the Apple releases. M1 through M5 Max 128GB. As a broke bootstrapped un-funded startup founder this is extremely tough to afford given the price increases and all.
[–] LoganDark 20 hours ago
The power is fun sometimes.
In all honesty though, more devs need to test their software on a cheap netbook from a decade+ ago. If everybody did that, software would be so much better. I heard rumors of a DOOM that was optimized that way and as a result reaches something like hundreds of thousands of frames per second on modern hardware.
In my experience with this, most of the work happens on a HPC cluster. Your actual machine just needs to work as a thin client.