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If you want your own cheap IDE integration, you can set up VSCode with Continue extension, ollama running locally, and a small agent model. https://docs.continue.dev/features/agent/model-setup . If you want to understand how all of this works, the best way is to build a coding agent manually. Its not that hard 1. Start with Ollama running locally and Gemma3 QAT models. https://ollama.com/library/gemma3 2. Write a wra…
OP is asking for where to get started with Claude for coding. They're confused. They just want to mess around with it in VSCode. And you start talking about Ollama, PAT, coding your own wrapper, composing a system prompt etc.!?
Opus 4(.1) is so expensive[1]. Even Sonnet[2] costs me $5 per hour (basically) using OpenRouter + Codename Goose[3]. The crazy thing is Sonnet 3.5 costs the same thing [4] right now. Gemini Flash is more reasonable[5], but always seems to make the wrong decisions in the end, spinning in circles. OpenAI is better, but still falls short of Claude's performance. Claude also gives back 400's from its API if you CTRL-C in…
Get a subscription and use claude code - that's how you get actual reasonable economics out of it. I use claude code all day on the max subscription and maybe twice in the last two weeks have I actually hit usage limits.
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Get a subscription and use claude code - that's how you get actual reasonable economics out of it. I use claude code all day on the max subscription and maybe twice in the last two weeks have I actually hit usage limits.
Is there any documentation on what the max sub usage limit is? A coworker tried it and was booted off Opus within just a couple hours due to "high usage". I haven't made the jump since I expect my $3k/mo on API would just instantly fly by a $200/mo sub and then I'd just be back on API again, but if it could carve out $1k-2k of costs for a little bit of time managing sub(s) it might be worth it.
Also there's a cli argument that lets you specify the model. try `claude --help`.
Opus 4.1 is now set as default model in Claude Code - just a heads-up.
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This isn't correct. GitHub Copilot now totally competes with Claude Code. You can have it create an entire app for you in "Agent" mode if you're feeling brave. In fact, seeing as Copilot is built directly into Visual Studio when you download it, I guess they have a one-up. Copilot isn't locked to a specific LLM, though. You can select the model from a panel, but I don't think you can plug in your own right now, and t…
I didn't mean it doesn't attempt to compete, I mean it doesn't actually compete. Claude code for agents, Copilot for autocomplete (depending on your editor/IDE). For single-line autocomplete, which is how I use it, pretty much anything will do the job. I use Copilot only because it integrates well with VS Code. I find the other features to be inferior.
Opus 4(.1) is so expensive[1]. Even Sonnet[2] costs me $5 per hour (basically) using OpenRouter + Codename Goose[3]. The crazy thing is Sonnet 3.5 costs the same thing [4] right now. Gemini Flash is more reasonable[5], but always seems to make the wrong decisions in the end, spinning in circles. OpenAI is better, but still falls short of Claude's performance. Claude also gives back 400's from its API if you CTRL-C in…
Get a subscription and use claude code - that's how you get actual reasonable economics out of it. I use claude code all day on the max subscription and maybe twice in the last two weeks have I actually hit usage limits.
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Is there a way to sign up for Claude code that doesn't involve verifying a phone number with Anthropic? They don't even accept Google Voice numbers. Maybe I'm out of touch, but I'm not handing out my phone number to sign up for random SaaS tools.
It's maybe the leading subscription based tool in our field, not a random SaaS tool.
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That's neat. According to the tool I'm consuming ~300m tokens per day coding with a (retail?) cost of ~125$/day. The output of the model is definitely worth $100/mo to me.
This is a good bar to know. I see the warnings but not sure how much I really have left. Do you mostly use opus?
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This is a good bar to know. I see the warnings but not sure how much I really have left. Do you mostly use opus?
Mostly sonnet because of the usage limits.