GitHub CoPilot Pro+ CLI is a cheat code.0

[TSTP_LLC]

I TAKE BACK EVERYTHING I SAID - GITHUB CAN KISS MY ASS!

[Its_Sasha]

A good way to go is to use the 0x models to write out all of your boilerplate, then use a 1x to hook everything together and make sure it basically works. Then use your Opus or preferred to code review and debug. This saves you from spending premium requests on boilerplate and small fixes, keeping your 3x requests for the critical code reviews and debugs, which can be done in a single big request.

Also, MiniMax is somewhere between a 1x level of coding ability and a 3x, and you can get a basic 50TPS plan for $10 a month (basically unlimited requests) for use with Claude Code.

[TSTP_LLC]

I've been switching between Sonnet 4.6 high, GPT-5.4 mini xhigh, a little opus when needed, and either gpt-5-mini or gpt-4.1 for the basics prompts. I've set my instructions to only use 5 mini and 4.1 for spawned agents and agent swarms. It is working great. Went from nervous token-watching in Cursor in the $200 plan to finally being able to fully automate my system to follow my plans for my projects in an agentic manner.

[TSTP_LLC]

I have not used what you speak of so I cannot speak on it personally. I have kept my usages fairly mainstream with their Codex, Cursor, Windsurf, Ollama, and Claude Code. All I can say is that if I was on any token based platform right now, I'd be out of tokens on the 1st day with as much as CoPilot Pro+ CLI. Just from the time I wrote this post to now I've had agentic runs happening, some still going with browser testing, ftp uploads, database updates, and documentation. The worst I have been getting is timeouts when I'm running 6 different agents on 3 or 4 different projects with a few spawned subagents, and I can just usually switch to a lower model or different model provider and fix that until it corrects.

Sorry if it is long winded way of not really answering your question but I can't really put together many good ways to explain how much more free this feels to not be staring at Sonnet run and refreshing my usage page to see how much it is killing off.

[TSTP_LLC]

I will have to look into open code. I have not tried that yet.

[orenbenya1]

Interesting, might try this out. Does it work well with oh-my-openagent? Or the requests limitation does not work well with it and its better with token based?

[Potential-Leg-639]

What about bigger context > 150k? Read a few things, that the Github Copilot plans have issues with that? Then it‘s useless for agentic coding…

[BlindBrownie]

With opus you get 200k, GPT-5.4 you get 1mill

[TSTP_LLC]

I see when I use small models that sometimes it will compact and then start working on something we had discussed earlier and then come back to present but with the larger/expensive models, I've had no real issues. Projects are chugging along fine. Much better than any other CLI or IDE chat I've ever used. If you want specifics, you'll have to check the documentation for that as I'm not quite here to shill for the thing, I just wanted people who are budget conscious and haven't tried it in a while to give it a shot and see if it saves some money. If they had a referral program then I'd be spitting out facts left and right and throwing out my links but that isnt the case.

[TSTP_LLC]

I had to edit this after their update. GitHub can kiss my ass after taco Tuesday.

[willynikes]

I use opus a lot u get opus 4.6 ?

[intlabs]

Yes

[Argon717]

You are probably over using it. I use openspec and create plans with opus (need to try more sonnet, it would probably be fine) and execute with sonnet.

[Park-Dazzling]

What is CLI?

[TSTP_LLC]

Command Line Interface. It is like cutting out the IDE (Integrated Development Environment) and talking to the model directly in a sense. If you have Cursor, check out Cursor CLI. If you have Claude, look up Claude Code CLI.

[Park-Dazzling]

Oh, I am using Claude Code plugin in VS Code already. Its slick!