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John Howard

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Software Engineer at Solo.io . I work on Istio and Agentgateway and write about wherever that brings me. Opinions my own. All content is written by me without AI assistance.

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It is worth it to buy the fast CPU

In the past few years, CPUs have gotten really fast. Shockingly fast! Yet most people are stuck on previous generation mobile chips (whether by choice, or by their companies choice), at a huge detriment to their productivity. Meanwhile, AI coding subscriptions like Cursor are all the rage these days. I'll skip the…