While Im still personally skeptical on the ability of these tools to produce a GOOD software engineer, it’s something I should probably consider testing in a limited capacity.

I’ve noticed Deepseek has a few integrations, both official and hobbyist, with text editors like Claude Code. Plus, I’d rather not pay £20/mo for any of this stuff, let alone to any AI company NOT linked to the CPC.

I might consider a locally hosted model but the upfront cost for anything that can run it decently fast/high params are quite prohibitive. My home server isn’t really set up for good cooling!