Could you share what projects you are working on? (tech stack and size)
I am mostly working on small to medium sized Next.js and Kotlin projects and Claude works really well, while Codex often misunderstood my instructions, while I was testing it.
Mediocre is fine for many tasks. What makes a good software engineer is that he spots the few places in every software where mediocre is not good enough.
There is difference between expropriation and fair taxation. The problem as far as I can tell are tax loopholes that you can only abuse above some wealth threshold.
It just shows that I, you and the average person is much closer to them than we think.
If you put enough money on the table I'm sure many more people would do the same thing as those currently in power. It's just that most people don't have the opportunity to sell out.
Not gp, but I currently use a Lenovo T 480s dual booting Windows 10 Pro and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and it's the best development setup I have used so far. No driver or hardware problems whatsoever.
I am mostly working on small to medium sized Next.js and Kotlin projects and Claude works really well, while Codex often misunderstood my instructions, while I was testing it.