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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 tuzemec »

supernes wrote: post #22

On the topic of Zed itself as a VSCode replacement - my experience is mixed. I loved it at first, but with time the papercuts add up. The responsiveness difference isn't that big on my system, but Zed's memory usage (with the TS language server in particular) is scandalous. As far as DX goes it's probably at 85% of the level VSCode provides, but in this space QoL features matter a lot. Oh, and it still can't render e…

I have 4-5 typescript projects and one python opened in Zed at any given time (with a bunch of LSPs, ACPs, opened terminals, etc.) and I see around 1.2 - 1.4gb usage.

I opened just one of the typescript projects inside VSCode and I see something like 1gb (combining the helpers usage). I'm not using it actively, so no extra plugins and so on.

That's on mac, so I guess it may vary on other systems.

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

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Post by grebc »

i_love_retros wrote: post #16

I can't believe people are spending $100 a month on this! You're all mad!

When you consider the cross section of the tech community posting on HN, is it really that surprising?

It’s mad for sure, but I’d bet 99.9% of people spending money on AI aren’t spending their own hard earned sooo… “YOLO it’s a business expense/investment”…

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

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Post by embedding-shape »

himata4113 wrote: post #58
embedding-shape wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So you pay OpenRouter with cryptocurrencies, which they accept as a payment method, and then what, they block your account because the cryptocurrencies you paid with came from some account on the blockchain associated with other stuff? Or what are you really saying here? I don't understand how that's related to "you don't have the right to do what you want with the API Key", which is the FUD part.

You pay openrouter with dirty crypto, then you have a business which simply resells openrouter giving you clean fiat. I think openrouter specifically only banned those kind of accounts since that's what I have observed from other comments / research. numlocked in this thread has explicitely said that they don't ban accounts for any of the reasons specified above which narrows down the scope to some form of broken ToS…

And then you go on HN and post "you don't have the right to do what you want"? Yeah, FUD and good riddance if so.

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

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Post by rzkyif »

supernes wrote: post #22

On the topic of Zed itself as a VSCode replacement - my experience is mixed. I loved it at first, but with time the papercuts add up. The responsiveness difference isn't that big on my system, but Zed's memory usage (with the TS language server in particular) is scandalous. As far as DX goes it's probably at 85% of the level VSCode provides, but in this space QoL features matter a lot. Oh, and it still can't render e…

Same here: I found the multibuffers feature really useful, but the extension system really couldn't hold a candle to VS Code at the time of my testing

Spent a couple of hours trying to make the Svelte extension ignore a particular type of false positive CSS error, failed, and returned to VS Code

Will definitely give it another chance when the extension system is more mature though!

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

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Post by embedding-shape »

janandonly wrote: post #56

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Also, when you janandonly pay PPQ.AI rather than OpenRouter it seems to go into your pocket instead, so understandable it makes sense it gets cheaper for you. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

Rather than trying to lie and get people to use your service, be honest what the upsides/downsides are, and only add your spam when it's at least a bit related, otherwise it just comes off as insincere when you're spamming your own platform in unrelated threads.

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

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Post by threatofrain »

numlocked wrote: post #14
Computer0 wrote: post #5

I have had credits on open router that haven’t been deleted since near the projects launch, I believe 365 days is not a rule but rather a right reserved.

COO of OpenRouter here. Thats right — we haven’t done it to date but we can’t have unlimited liabilities stacking up forever. At some point we will start expiring credits from accounts that have seen zero activity in over a year.

In CA gift cards don’t expire and the industry does fine without having people buy expiring money.

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

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Post by embedding-shape »

Daviey wrote: post #60
ElFitz wrote: post #15

Has anyone (other than OpenClaw) used pi? ( https://shittycodingagent.ai/ , https://pi.dev/ ) Any insights / suggestions / best practices?

Reluctantly, the dev seems to have a stinky attitude. He went on an "OSS vacation", which is perfectly reasonable and said he'd be back on a certain date. I had a PR open for a trivial fix, someone asked when it would land. I shared he was still away. After his return I politely asked, "@badlogic hey, what can we do to progress this? Thanks x" I then got what I would consider an abusive reply, because he confused me…

> Honestly, it seems you are grumpy, so it was probably a good idea to extend that vacation. Being rude just creates a more toxic environment for everyone. Maybe extend that break for the rest of the month and come back nicer? Thanks

Honestly, it seems like both of you were feeling a bit "grumpy" at the moment, but sending passive aggressiveness towards the maintainer you are trying to get to merge your code (or not your code, someone else's code?) seems like a very bold strategy regardless.

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

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Post by dust42 »

ElFitz wrote: post #15

Has anyone (other than OpenClaw) used pi? ( https://shittycodingagent.ai/ , https://pi.dev/ ) Any insights / suggestions / best practices?

I really love it. The simplicity is key. The first play project I made with it was a public transport map with GTFS data - click on a stop and get the routes and the timetables for the stop and the surrounding ones. I used Qwen3.5-35B on Mac M1 Max with oMLX. It wrote 98% of the code with very little interaction from me. And very useful is the /tree feature to go back in history when the model is on a wrong track or my instructions where not good enough. I usually work in a two path approach: first let the model explore what it needs to fulfill the task and write it into CONTEXT.md (or any other name to your liking). Then restart the session with the CONTEXT.md. That way you are always nicely operating in 5-15k context, i.e. all is very fast. Create an account for pi (or docker) and make sure it can't walk into other directories - it has bash access. Add the browser-tools to the skills and load them when useful: https://github.com/badlogic/pi-skills

No need for database MCP, I use postgres and tell it to use psql.

Occasionally I use prettier to remove indentation - the LLM makes a lot less edit errors that way. Just add the indent back before you commit. Or tell pi to do it.

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

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Post by Vinnl »

embedding-shape wrote: post #63
himata4113 wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You pay openrouter with dirty crypto, then you have a business which simply resells openrouter giving you clean fiat. I think openrouter specifically only banned those kind of accounts since that's what I have observed from other comments / research. numlocked in this thread has explicitely said that they don't ban accounts for any of the reasons specified above which narrows down the scope to some form of broken ToS…

And then you go on HN and post "you don't have the right to do what you want"? Yeah, FUD and good riddance if so.

That was a different user who wrote that.
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