> AI today is around 100x cheaper than 2 years ago. it will continue to get cheap.

2 y.o model is probably 100x cheaper, but model size and requirements are also growing proportionally.

2 years ago, thinking was an optional, nowadays people use Opus with high effort almost by default.

Next year will be a new record

Tip: if you already have Raspberry Pi, your can skip purchasing CH347.

RPi has SPI pins and is supported by flashrom.

Original author here. I have a Raspberry Pi, but I still recommend the CH347 instead of the Pi since it's $5 on AliExpress and you can buy it at the same time as the pogo pins probe, which you need. The advantage of the CH347 is that you don't need to fiddle around with the pinout and risk frying the chip if you screw up. You can just plug the probe in (via the level shifter) and you are good to go.

Also, if you are doing the Raspberry Pi, you'd still need the level shifter since the Pi is a 3.3 V device.

Why a spare machine has to be exactly a mac ? For iMessage?

New macs share memory between the cpu and the GPU so the GPU gets a lot of ram for a low cost (relative to everything else available right now.)

Completely irrelevant for Claude Code? You can use literally the weakest PC you have and run Linux and use that for Claude Code.

> slow computer > 25 GB of RAM

What?

For long time my daily driver was T480s with 24GB. I still have it, but don't use it anymore because it is slow for my needs now.

Slow means CPU only in this context.

For some reason, graphics is one of most popular topics for recreational programming.

Because it’s fun as hell and a super deep rabbit hole?

And you get feedback almost instantly.

> Unfortunately, HDMI 2.1 does not work with AMD graphics on Linux due to shenanigans from the HDMI Forum.

IIRC, recently, AMD got permission to implement HDMI 2.1 in their foss driver, so soon this shouldn't be an issue.

Can you suggest some tutorials for Verilog and FPGAs in general?

I have a spare Tang Nano 9k but I don't feel confident about blindly asking Claude to vibecode me a solution and still would like to have at-least a basic level of understanding.

hm.. has been quite a while for me. The good thing about the Tang Nano is that it is supported by the Yosys open source toolchain. There are quite a few resources on the web when you search for the combination.

the hdlbits course is really good imo

Luanti more seems like an attempt to build a FOSS Roblox with Minecraft gameplay base

This debate pops up every few years and the community still seems like don't have a clear consensus