The tax on trying a new AI development tool is rarely the tool itself. It is the setup: Docker, a model backend, keys, a reverse proxy, and an afternoon gone before you write a line. For a solo builder shipping on nights and weekends, that tax kills most experiments.
Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/rivera123/try-an-ai-dev-platform-without-the-setup-tax-monkeycodes-hosted-saas-42lb)