During vacation in an Asian country on the other side all of this was basically a no brainer for smaller to medium businesses. I once rented a scooter there and the business owner had all her documents organised in WhatsApp chats. Including now my passport plus drivers licence... The people in general in that country were also very relaxed when it came to giving out their contact details to random businesses.

I don't want to throw shade on them, thus no country name. Incredible friendly and welcoming people there.

For some projects the giving out the code part might be ok (i use Codex there too) but for the core app at the company I'm working at there is currently a strict no-AI policy. A local GPU solves this.

For continues all day work you definitely need a higher tier sub level.

I'm actually looking into deploying a GPU at my company because we can not give out our code. Qwen 3.6 looks good

UI development is an even more special case here. The customer buys the machine which runs the code, not the company. So sadly "good enough" is the standard.

One example for me here is the "switch product option" button on Amazon listings (e.g. switch green to blue color, smaller to larger model). On my phone this sometimes takes >5 seconds to properly load. Horribly optimised.

Use an Ai agent + Mermaid.js for a quick scribble if you are in a remote meeting. Use white boards or pen + paper in a local meeting.

Diagrams are so much clearer then words, especially if the concept or logic in question is not trivial.

At some point we will get these models in hardware and the cost per token will be minimal.

Still, in comparison with Claude Code, the quota of Codex is a much better deal. However, they should not make it worse...

Btw when you damaged a book beyond repair, you needed to pay the full price. Only the exercise books needed to be bought freshly as they were "used up" fully after the year. Still, they were often seen as optional.

So a 20 year old panel might be at around 80% in the worst case. Often they are in much better shape. This seems like a pretty good deal to me.

The biggest thing is truly that solar has now reached a price tag where it just makes sense to replace other sources. You don't need to think about the environment any more to prefer it.

https://shop-sicatron.de/products/sicatron-910w-balkonkraftw...

You still need attachment material for your balcony.

Keep in mind that this system will input all it's power into your power grid. If you don't use the power it will go directly into the public grid.

Still, really good cost saving measure.

So for 250 to 400€ you can get a system that will break even latest after four years, likely earlier.