What I use to build things.
Uses.
Hardware
MacBook Pro M1 2020, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSDdoes everything. trains nothing serious. that's what kaggle is for.
Editor
dCodemy own macOS text editor. AI-first, built in SwiftUI. i use what i build.
Zed / VS Codewhen dCode isn't enough yet.
AI Tools
Claude Codeprimary coding agent. tried opencode before this. no contest.
Claude for designwireframes, layouts, thinking through UI before touching code.
Compute
Kaggle free tierT4 GPU, 30 hours/week. trained IDK-1 and fine-tuned Nala on this. free compute is enough to start.
HuggingFace Spaces (ZeroGPU)where Nala lives. shared A10G, free.
Browser
Arcthe only browser that doesn't get in the way.