Now all we need is a wrapper/UI/manager/aggregator for all these "free" AI tools/pages so that we can use them without going into the hassle of changing tabs ;-)
How I code with AI on a budget/free
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Re: How I code with AI on a budget/free
#112Why are people still drawn to using pointless AI assistants for everything? What time do we save by making the code quality worse overall?
Re: How I code with AI on a budget/free
#113I am the person that wrote that. Sorry about the font. This is a bit outdated, AI stuff goes at high speed. More models so I will try to update that. Every month so many new models come out. My new fav is GLM-4.5... Kimi K2 is also good, and Qwen3-Coder 480b, or 2507 instruct.. very good as well. All of those work really well in any agentic environment/in agent tools. I made a context helper app ( https://wuu73.org/a…
Note that the website is scrolling very slow, sub1-fps on Firefox Android. I'm also unable to scroll the call-out about grok. Also, there's this strange large green button reading CSS loaded at the top.
I scroll just fine on Vanadium, Duck browser and brave.
Re: How I code with AI on a budget/free
#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
> You can code for free this way vs > If you set your account's data settings to allow OpenAI to use your data for model training So, it's not "for free".
Many folks, especially if they are into getting things free, don't really care much about privacy narrative. So yes, it is free.
> So yes, it is free.
This sounds pedantic, but I think it's important to spell this out: this sort of stuff is only free if you consider what you're producing/exchanging for it to have 0 value.
If you consider what you're producing as valuable, you're giving it away to companies with an incentive to extract as much value from your thing as possible, with little regard towards your preferences.
If an idiot is convinced to trade his house for some magic beans, would you still be saying "the beans were free"?
Re: How I code with AI on a budget/free
#115I am the person that wrote that. Sorry about the font. This is a bit outdated, AI stuff goes at high speed. More models so I will try to update that. Every month so many new models come out. My new fav is GLM-4.5... Kimi K2 is also good, and Qwen3-Coder 480b, or 2507 instruct.. very good as well. All of those work really well in any agentic environment/in agent tools. I made a context helper app ( https://wuu73.org/a…
FYI: the first AI you link to, " z.ai's GLM 4.5", actually links to zai.net, which appears to be a news site, instead of "chat.z.ai", which is what I think you intended.
Re: How I code with AI on a budget/free
#116As of today, what is the best local model that can be run on a system with 32gb of ram and 24gb of vram?
DeepSeek Coder 33B or Llama 3 70B with GGUF quantization (Q4_K_M) would be optimal for your specs, with Mistral Large 2 providing the best balance of performance and resource usage.
Re: How I code with AI on a budget/free
#117I am the person that wrote that. Sorry about the font. This is a bit outdated, AI stuff goes at high speed. More models so I will try to update that. Every month so many new models come out. My new fav is GLM-4.5... Kimi K2 is also good, and Qwen3-Coder 480b, or 2507 instruct.. very good as well. All of those work really well in any agentic environment/in agent tools. I made a context helper app ( https://wuu73.org/a…
FYI: the first AI you link to, " z.ai's GLM 4.5", actually links to zai.net, which appears to be a news site, instead of "chat.z.ai", which is what I think you intended.
Fun fact, zai[.]net seems to be an italian school magazine. As an italian I've never known about it, but the words pun got me laughing.
zai[.]net -> zainet -> zainetto -> which is the italian word for "little school backback"
Re: How I code with AI on a budget/free
#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
Note that the website is scrolling very slow, sub1-fps on Firefox Android. I'm also unable to scroll the call-out about grok. Also, there's this strange large green button reading CSS loaded at the top.
I scroll just fine on Vanadium, Duck browser and brave.
On Android?
Re: How I code with AI on a budget/free
#119I am the person that wrote that. Sorry about the font. This is a bit outdated, AI stuff goes at high speed. More models so I will try to update that. Every month so many new models come out. My new fav is GLM-4.5... Kimi K2 is also good, and Qwen3-Coder 480b, or 2507 instruct.. very good as well. All of those work really well in any agentic environment/in agent tools. I made a context helper app ( https://wuu73.org/a…
Note that the website is scrolling very slow, sub1-fps on Firefox Android. I'm also unable to scroll the call-out about grok. Also, there's this strange large green button reading CSS loaded at the top.
Works fine, Firefox Android 142.0b9
Re: How I code with AI on a budget/free
#120My experience lines up with the article. The agentic stuff only works with the biggest models. (Well, "works"... OpenAI Codex took 200 requests with o4-mini to change like 3 lines of code...) For simple changes I actually found smaller models better because they're so much faster. So I shifted my focus from "best model" to "stupidest I can get away with". I've been pushing that idea even further. If you give up on ag…
You should try GLM 4.5; it's better in practice than Kimi K2 and Qwen3 Coder, but it's not getting much hype.