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Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter

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Re: Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter

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Post by brazukadev »

Daviey wrote: post #201
brazukadev wrote: post #199

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> You know, when I wrote that I genuinely meant it, or at least I think i did. It wasn't supposed to be passive aggressive. :( That's a great opportunity for self reflection.

Yeah, I take that. I've thought about it much of this evening. I think at the time I was frustrated, it felt unfair and I couldn't understand it. Then I thought,this guy probably does need more time off. Which was a genuine thought. But that is where I should have stopped. The way i expressed it, whilst genuine thought, was expressed in a way which was passive aggressive. I am owning that.

> Then I thought,this guy probably does need more time off. Which was a genuine thought.

The thought was correct, he was probably stressed. You made it worse.

> The way i expressed it, whilst genuine thought, was expressed in a way which was passive aggressive

The way you expressed is a technicality, what counts here was your action.

Open source developers owe you nothing, you can always fork and implement your feature by yourself.

Behaving the way you did, treating it as something about you, is very selfish.

Re: Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter

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Post by fishgoesblub »

hypercube33 wrote: post #250
fishgoesblub wrote: post #172

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been attempting to use Zed as a VSCode replacement but between the lack of bitmap font support (Criminal in an alleged code editor), and the weird UI choices, it's been hard. I want to love it, but what is "performance" if I have to spend more time working around the UI and lack of features from extensions. Strangest issue I've encountered is the colours being completely wrong when using Wayland.. colours are pe…

Question since I'm currently digging through fonts trying to find one my eyes like...what's your preference?

Terminus. I personally love it. There's a TTF version called Terminess that includes the original bitmaps for certain sizes, and uses the more blurry style font for sizes the original didn't have. You can use it with certain programs like VSCode that don't allow you to select bitmap fonts, yet actually support them.

Re: Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter

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Post by Daviey »

brazukadev wrote: post #251
Daviey wrote: post #201

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I take that. I've thought about it much of this evening. I think at the time I was frustrated, it felt unfair and I couldn't understand it. Then I thought,this guy probably does need more time off. Which was a genuine thought. But that is where I should have stopped. The way i expressed it, whilst genuine thought, was expressed in a way which was passive aggressive. I am owning that.

> Then I thought,this guy probably does need more time off. Which was a genuine thought. The thought was correct, he was probably stressed. You made it worse. > The way i expressed it, whilst genuine thought, was expressed in a way which was passive aggressive The way you expressed is a technicality, what counts here was your action. Open source developers owe you nothing, you can always fork and implement your featu…

I've acknowledged everything you've said previously. Now why do you feel the need to continue it?

But I will add, they may have had a bad day, but that doesn't give the maintainer the freedom to be rude to others.

The fact is, I was polite, maintainer was rude, and I reacted badly to it and was worse.

But as you say, my choice was to not be further interested in the project... Which is what I said earlier.

Re: Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter

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Post by chatmasta »

aryehof wrote: post #234
chatmasta wrote: post #213

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Regardless of which harness you use, asking your agent to self-edit its own .claude (and to put it in the repo itself so you see the changes) is the single biggest impact change you can make in terms of compounding improvement. Couple this with telling it to create skills for /garden (clean up drift based on what changed this session), /handoff (garden, create ant skills to resolve friction encountered this session,…

Can you provide more details on these skills?

Honestly… just paste my comment into the prompt and you’ll get it 80% of the way there. The important thing is to seed it with instructions so it will iteratively improve its own instructions each session.

Re: Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter

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Post by vskrch »

0xbadcafebee wrote: post #155

I just so happen to be doing a price comparison for different cloud LLM providers right now. It turns out some of the cheapest providers with the highest limits are ones you might not have heard of. OpenCode Go has the simplest plan at the highest rate limits for any subscription plan with multiple model families, and it's $10/month ($5/month for first month). With the cheapest model in the plan (MiniMax M2.5), it is…

Which one has unlimited glm 5.1?

Re: Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter

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Post by [deleted] »

da_ordi_ wrote: post #168
0xbadcafebee wrote: post #155

I just so happen to be doing a price comparison for different cloud LLM providers right now. It turns out some of the cheapest providers with the highest limits are ones you might not have heard of. OpenCode Go has the simplest plan at the highest rate limits for any subscription plan with multiple model families, and it's $10/month ($5/month for first month). With the cheapest model in the plan (MiniMax M2.5), it is…

Yep, I was comparing opencode go ($10/month) with copilot pro ($10/month) this morning. opencode go gives about 14x the requests of copilot pro. I was like, there must be something not right. Then I compared the best model GLM5.1 on opencode go, and antropic opus 4.6, yes opus is better on most benchmarks, but glm 5.1 is not too far behind.

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Re: Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter

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Post by vskrch »

da_ordi_ wrote: post #168
0xbadcafebee wrote: post #155

I just so happen to be doing a price comparison for different cloud LLM providers right now. It turns out some of the cheapest providers with the highest limits are ones you might not have heard of. OpenCode Go has the simplest plan at the highest rate limits for any subscription plan with multiple model families, and it's $10/month ($5/month for first month). With the cheapest model in the plan (MiniMax M2.5), it is…

Yep, I was comparing opencode go ($10/month) with copilot pro ($10/month) this morning. opencode go gives about 14x the requests of copilot pro. I was like, there must be something not right. Then I compared the best model GLM5.1 on opencode go, and antropic opus 4.6, yes opus is better on most benchmarks, but glm 5.1 is not too far behind.

They are heavily subsidized for now with vc money

Re: Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter

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Post by rachel_rig »

kisamoto wrote: post #231
slimebot80 wrote: post #229

I might be misunderstanding something. He uses $70 for remaining credit and says that's a good thing because it rolls over But spending $70 on an API (he says he still prefers Opus) is far less cost effective than a Max plan on Anthropic. The article seems to be nudging us to setup OpenRouter but the premise isn't fully true. A bit of diversity is excellent, but the costs are going to (largely) prohibit it in reality…

OP here. I do like Opus but I don't default to it for everything. My CC usage is a lot of Haiku/Sonnet and is also very bursty (bursts throughout the month, not a day). I find that a lot of my Claude usage goes unused and then when I'm coding or leaning on agents I hit a limit and have to wait. I don't like that dynamic. I do have Extra Usage enabled (with a cap) but then I'm spending more than the $100 I already do.…

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Re: Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter

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Post by philipp-gayret »

kisamoto wrote: post #11
philipp-gayret wrote: post #10

I like and do use Zed but be aware functionality like Hooks is not supported for their integration with Claude Code, as a heavy user of Hooks I would stick with the terminal.

I'm always interested in how people use tools. I like to have a full editor to review code as a complement to the CLI and as I don't often use hooks the integration is also good enough for me. 1. What do you use the hooks for? 2. Do you use an editor alongside the CLI to review code or only examine the diffs?

> 1. What do you use the hooks for?

I use hooks to automate decisionmaking (i.e. stronger permissions than a regex by parsing the bash) and similarly automate guidance. Our tooling is open source so here is an example: https://github.com/Devleaps/agent-policies-server/blob/maste...

Another example is I whitelist dependencies based on the dependency age, for example a library needs to have been around for a year, then it can do `uv add {dependency}`.

As a third example, hooks tell Claude not to write out *_test|debug.py at the root of a project, which for some reason it very often does when it wants to fix some issue. The hooks tell it to write a proper test case using the test framework in place. So instead of having random debug and test scripts everywhere after a long session, I have more test coverage.

This is all in the agent-policies-server project linked above. Mainly it reduces interruptions and I don't have to worry about it doing something particularly stupid. (It is not a replacement for sandboxing)

> Do you use an editor alongside the CLI to review code or only examine the diffs?

I do have the file tree open alongside the CLI, and that is both in Zed. How much of the code I review depends on who owns the code, meaning a client, employer or me. In most cases I review it myself, as for many clients code goes through a peer review process. In some cases the organization uses automated quality metrics and has agents looking at code instead. If agents don't have any more comments, and the quality metrics also approve, it's good enough for them. As for my own personal projects, I look at the code when I feel like it, which is practically never.

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