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Given how quickly things evolve, it's easy to get lost in the numerous offerings and hard to get the best deal. So, what do you use? Both clients/harnesses and LLM providers or local setups would be interesting.

Personally, I've been using opencode with Github copilot for work. I'm currently looking for cost-effective provider for personal work. Maybe openrouter with one of the cheap models?

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[-] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Claude cli almost exclusively. So far mostly opus, but I need to start using less expensive models more frequently.

I have Codex installed, but I mostly use it to interface with Obsidian, which is where I track all of my tasks and organization stuff. Unfortunately, codex doesn't play cleanly with Claude, so it's hard to use it for coding at all, but I do have it review documentation and identify gaps or discrepancies, because it's far cheaper than having Claude do it.

I've tried lmstudio for local AI with some ~30b models. It works fairly well and fast, but only for tiny context sizes. One I pass a few thousand tokens the speed falls off pretty quickly.

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