[dagss]

Compared to the salary I loose by not taking a consulting gig for half a year, these $800 arent't all that much. (I guess depending on definition of bootstrap, mine might not be, as I support myself with saved consulting income.)

Startup is a gamble with or without the LLM costs.

I have been coding for 20 years, I have a good feel for how much time I would have spent without LLM assistance. And if LLMs vanish from the face of the earth tomorrow, I still saved myself that time.

[dakolli]

Well if you've been "coding" for 20 years you should have known after a pretty short period of time it doesn't save you any time.