AI stuff aside I'm frankly happy to see workstation-class AArch64 hardware available to regular consumers.
Last few jobs I've had were for binaries compiled to target ARM AArch64 SBC devices, and cross compiling was sometimes annoying, and you couldn't truly eat your own dogfood on workstations as there's subtle things around atomics and memory consistency guarantees that differ between ISAs.
Mac M series machines are an option except that then you're not running Linux, except in VM, and then that's awkward too. Or Asahi which comes with its own constraints.
Having a beefy ARM machine at my desk natively running Linux would have pleased me greatly. Especially if my employer was paying for it.
Last few jobs I've had were for binaries compiled to target ARM AArch64 SBC devices, and cross compiling was sometimes annoying, and you couldn't truly eat your own dogfood on workstations as there's subtle things around atomics and memory consistency guarantees that differ between ISAs.
Mac M series machines are an option except that then you're not running Linux, except in VM, and then that's awkward too. Or Asahi which comes with its own constraints.
Having a beefy ARM machine at my desk natively running Linux would have pleased me greatly. Especially if my employer was paying for it.