alt Hacker NewsThis would have been neat back when I could afford enough tokens to even set it up properly. Now I’ve had to increase my GH Copilot subscription just to cover the bare minimum updates to a few websites every month, and I no longer do any test driving, or even recreational coding projects. I don’t have hundreds of dollars a month to plow into these products, so I’m rationing use, looking for better local options, and being much more discerning about where these tools actually save time. Precarious time to be alive…
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I've been building a reasonably complicated project over the past week using deepseek v4 pro almost exclusively (a couple of k2.7 and 1 session with gpt5.5 to re-assess some architectural questions). Deepseek is super capable though if you're a coder. I don't even write "code" but I can tell when it's doing something dumb and tell it how to do it better, but other than that I'm not micro managing it or using it "just for auto complete" or whatever.
And it is SO fucking cheap.
try OpenCode
> Now I’ve had to increase my GH Copilot subscription
Maybe you should move away from a subscription that started charging by the token instead of by the request?