Not _just_ being able to finance; the 0% interest and 24-month period is amazing!

AI/ML stuff: Python

Personal: Rust/Go based on criticality of being able to glean code quickly, or memory usage, etc

This is it

In what context?

For research and theses evaluations, we're observing that firms - of names we all know - are bullish and even eager to try AI products.

Regarding automated asset management and the likes, indeed there's much more apprehension.

After the fixes in Claude Code, Opus 4.6/4.7 have been performing well.

Before the fixes, they were complete trash and I was ready to cancel this month.

Now, I'm feeling like the AI wars are back -- GPT 5.5 and Opus 4.7 are both really good. I'm no longer feeling like we're using nerfed models (knock on wood)!