alt Hacker NewsYes. You have to find the provider with pricing that suits your usage.
I am having 98% my input in cache, so using Coralbricks makes sense due to them giving cache reads for free — you only pay for writes. I spend maybe 5-10 dollars a day and my agents basically work day and night implementing things for me.
If your tasks are write-heavy, find a provider with cheaper output.
If you build a customer-facing app, pay a bit extra for 400+ tok/s e.g. on Lithos.
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What are your agents implementing day and night…sheesh. Built anything useful for anyone yet?
You have all the struggles for the price of Anthropic / cursor subscription. I use the first one I code large chunks some PR are 50k LOC and I have at least 2-3 like this a week . It’s a greenfield project .
I still have quotas left I use it for home things build 3d model of my renovation projects, alerts for shopping list etc . And yeah I use cutting edge of cutting edge of models that saves me time and money , only discount monitor saved me ~$2k on my renovation project
I agree. I code a lot, a lot! And maybe my code is shitty, but yeah, I burn a lot of tokens, and I couldn’t do it without Chinese models. I’m just a random dev in the middle of nowhere. And I don’t feel like I’m missing out on anything with my setup at all.