When you work on backend services you have a local DB running 24/7. Changes don’t go onto the actual dev environment until locally tested, or you might just break things for 50 other people.

This is on my work PC, I can’t just switch there (:

For .NET development Visual Studio and Rider are the only decent options, everything else is “trash”. Teams is the company communication tool (besides Outlook).

And we run SQL Servers in Azure, PostgreSQL would cost the same (but I’d love to switch to it myself).

You don’t need 64 GB of RAM, I was happy with 48 GB too, but the headroom is nice. 32 GB would be borderline for my work though, especially as I often have two heavy backend services open (2x Visual Studio) plus a Python project for automated tests (VS Code).

Visual Studio, VS Code, WSL2, docker containers, SQL Server + SSMS, MS Teams, …

Usually all at the same time. Not everyone is doing just web dev.

It depends, how big is the suitcase with the bribe?

You have 170+ GB VRAM at home? (:

I mainly use DeepSeek v4 Flash now, it’s the cheapest around and the quality is high enough for coding. At work we’re throwing tons of money at Claude, but even there I usually stick to Sonnet (as Opus is burning money).

Except when it’s your own data, then usually you’re fucked.