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Re: How I code with AI on a budget/free

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Post by can16358p »

teiferer wrote: post #65
radio879 wrote: post #16

I 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 This is a bit outdated, AI stuff goes at high speed.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…

> 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.

Re: How I code with AI on a budget/free

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Post by Wilder7977 »

can16358p wrote: post #81
teiferer wrote: post #65

Earlier 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.

This is not only a privacy concern (in fact, that might be a tiny part since the code might end up public anyway?). There is an element of disclosure of personal data, there are ownership issues in case that code was not - in fact - going to be public and more.

In any case, not caring about the cost (at a specific time) doesn't make the cost disappear.

Re: How I code with AI on a budget/free

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Post by worik »

can16358p wrote: post #81
teiferer wrote: post #65

Earlier 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.

I understand. I get the point. I disagree

Privacy absolutely does not matter, until it does, and then it is too late

Re: How I code with AI on a budget/free

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Post by pyman »

PeterStuer wrote: post #62
radio879 wrote: post #16

I 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…

Very nice article and thx for the update. I would be very interested in an in dept of your experiences of differences between Roo Code and Cline if you feel you can share that. I've only tried Roo Code (with interesting but mixed results) thus far.

Just use lmstudio.ai, it's what everyone is using nowadays

Re: How I code with AI on a budget/free

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Post by [deleted] »

indigodaddy wrote: post #38
radio879 wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, if you download Qwen Code https://github.com/QwenLM/qwen-code it is free up to 2000 api calls a day. Not sure if GLM-4.5 Air is good, but non-Air one is fabulous. I know for free API access there is pollinations ai project. Also llm7. If you just use the web chat's you can use most of the best models for free without API. There are ways to 'emulate' an API automatically.. I was thinking about adding this to my…

Very cool, a lot to chew on here. Thanks so much for the feedback!

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