Comment by kweingar
2 months ago
> If you cannot afford the hundreds of dollars a month Claude costs
Employers will buy AI tools for their employees, this isn't a problem.
If you're saying that you need to buy and learn these tools yourself in order to get a job, I strongly disagree. Prompting is not exactly rocket science, and with every generation of models it gets easier. Soon you'll be able to pick it up in a few hours. It's not a differentiator.
I need side projects and OSS contributions to get hired as a new graduate or an intern. The bar for both of those will be much higher if everyone is using AI.
Yes side project are for fun and for learning, not for prompting an LLM. Unless you dislike coding and problem solving.