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Comment by Abishek_Muthian | Hacker News Reader

I'm a senior skilled developer and I find Anthropic $20 + Open AI $20 + OpenCode Go $10 offers more value than $100 on any particular service.

Juggling between all different models/agents is quite simple with Zed.

A caution about OpenCode Go though, the entire company seems to be run by AI so there's lot of billing related issues with zero support. I subscribe new every month as I lost money due to double payment with automatic subscription.

For non coding related tasks I use local models.

P.S. If anyone is interested to read more about my setup, let me know I'll publish a blog post.

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I've been running about the same stack for well over a year now, Anthropic cheapest + OpenAI cheapest + z.ai coder (black friday offer).

The Z.AI is a bit wonky, so now I'm moving to Openrouter for Qwen+Kimi+Deepseek?GLM

My summer project is to figure out a proper agentic system where a "big" model does the planning, but automatically uses a cheaper one for the grunt work. Having Opus to config edits is just stupid :)

> My summer project is to figure out a proper agentic system where a "big" model does the planning, but automatically uses a cheaper one for the grunt work. Having Opus to config edits is just stupid :)

My company pays for the tokens so I don’t care. Biggest model and max everything. The slight risk of a smaller model making a mistake is more expensive than just running the bigger model all the time.

Oh I do that at work too, for sure. I'm riding that Claude Teams subscription like I stole it.

But I'm playing the long game you see. The tokens will get expensive and the monthly subscriptions will either go away or also get too expensive.

Then companies want efficient token use and cost control - and I'll already know how to do that =)

Would love to read that blog post. I'm toying with running local AI model with Claude and GLM as well depending on a task. Pretty decent success but it could be better.

Here's the blog - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48748443 .

>>For non coding related tasks I use local models.

What sort of hardware are you using to run local models? And how do you use them?

4090 RTX laptop and a M4 Mac Mini, I've posted more information in my blog mentioned in another comment.

I’m interested!

I've posted in another comment above.

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