Ask HN: Are you putting off hardware upgrades because of AI coding tools?

An Ask HN post asks whether AI coding tools have led developers to delay or instead encourage hardware upgrades. The author says they still use an 8th-gen i7 with Linux for most development work, now running about 10 terminal tabs instead of IDEs, with concurrent Rust and Java builds usually not a big issue, and notes they could tell Claude to do all builds on and iterate via CI. They cite immediate feedback on interface slowness for things like FastComments as a benefit, while apps like Stripe are seriously slow in Firefox on this machine despite it running a 3D game like RDD 2 at 60fps.