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Which models do you primarily use, and can you very roughly list your process? Agentic coding in VSCode with tons of MCPs or... something else? Do you include lots of images or have large codebases? Which agentic harness are you using?

I also find that it's easy to spend like that, but also easy not to with little impact on productivity. At the current moment I'm stuck with rider + copilot (not ideal), but e.g. using GPT 6.1 luna is really, really cheap, and lots of tasks are quickly and decently dealt with even at lower reasoning levels, (added bonus of having low latency). And that model is so cheap, I can't see a hitting 1500$ at api prices realistically - not even close. But it also depends on the harness and codebase.

parent emn13 23 days ago

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