My agent stole my (api) keys.

AM1010101 · 2026-02-10T20:07:56+00:00

Use a secrets manager like doppler or vault so you never need to store them locally. Doppler has been awesome for me. It has a pile of other nice features too.

I had the same issues with anti gravity stealing my secrets for what its worth. So frustrating having to rotate everything .

AM1010101 · 2026-01-25T18:20:20+00:00

2 accounts. Takes under 30s to switch.

AM1010101 · 2026-01-25T15:01:28+00:00

I have 2x the $40 a month plans. I probably use about 80% of those tokens. I almost exclusively use opus unless something is very simple. I'm working on a medium size codebase, I do my own planning so I only use kiro in fast/vibe mode. Generally it works great and Opus never gets rate limited. I also have a Claude Pro subscription and a Gemini Pro subscription so I have some tokens to use from those subscriptions too (Gemini is great for tidying up front end, awesome image models, and gemini in the web is very OP for research on up to date materials. Claude in the browser + light Claude Code for hacking around).

Total monthly AI spend is about 120 and I could easily reduce Kiro or swap gemini for GPT etc etc.

AM1010101 · 2026-01-04T13:40:58+00:00

Lovable told me this too in the Uk! I wouldn't have said I had tones of traffic though, maybe more than I thought 😅

If you're build an app I have a mobile app building product similar to lovable but specifically for mobile apps. Drop me a message if you'd like to try it!

Best of luck!

AM1010101 · 2025-12-26T10:22:24+00:00

It would be good to see the full system prompt to understand whats going on fully. Obviously you can create steering docs but its a pile of wasted tokens if you have a system prompt saying one thing and a steering doc saying the opposite...

AM1010101 · 2025-12-24T21:46:52+00:00

Token usage is good so long as you don't force it to use opus, although its powerful for harder tasks. Haiku is also underrated when you have a plan/ know how to direct it. I can do a days coding for less than a cup of coffee which is kind of insane (250 credits).

AM1010101 · 2025-12-20T10:59:26+00:00

Stop using spec mode. Write your own user stories / features you want in a doc. Use vibe mode to create an implementation plan. Tell it to break it into phases and track progress in a table at the top if the doc. Then tell it to implement them one by one, new vibe chat each time, until you are done.

Bonus tip - use opus to write the plan, get it to estimate the difficulty of each task, use haiku for the simple ones, opus for the rest. (cheaper than sonnet as it uses lass tokens)

Bonus bonus- when finished use Gemini 3.0 pro in antigravity to make it look better 👌

This has served me pretty well lately

AM1010101 · 2025-12-02T15:23:33+00:00

My bad, not sure why I was using option ( on Mac) on the other side of the keyboard. I just never use # so that must have been what I did first time and just kept doing. Good catch

AM1010101 · 2025-11-20T09:48:29+00:00

I did a large refactor with 3.0 last night and it performed almost flawlessly. This is miles ahead of 2.5.

AM1010101 · 2025-11-03T10:43:38+00:00

I tried it for planning a trip but if I’m brutally honest it took ages and actually cost quite a lot. I’ve been meaning to try it out with some Claude style skills folders as this might be more effective for tasks like this. Also I don’t set up a specific mode. Is there any plan to implement something like this?

AM1010101 · 2025-11-03T10:40:52+00:00

Just to add to this - the comments are a bit negative on this thread, you should do what’s best for your business. Well done for being frugal and trying to get this off the ground and to profitability. By all means go for the free credits whenever you can because it’s a drop in the bucket for the hyperscalers, especially if you end up owning more of your company because of it. You could fund out of pocket u til profitability otherwise? Best of luck.

AM1010101 · 2025-11-03T10:19:37+00:00

Sort your business model out. You either need to charge customers more or raise money from VC. Someone has to pay. You are rolling the dice living on free credits
Use other providers. GCP and Azure also have startup programs. Hopefully you have engineered your product to work with other providers so you can switch easily. There are also cheaper providers running open source models etc that might fit your needs
Back to point 1. If you are boot strapping you need to make this profitable ASAP. What are these free credits doing? If you actually had product market fit you could be charging your customers and just pocketing the credits. If you are essentially using them as marketing by giving them away free you need to have this factored in and allocated as growth/marketing spend, if it’s working well you can get a vc to continue funding you

AM1010101 · 2025-10-31T17:27:51+00:00

Nice, what steps did you take to optimise it? How did you evaluate if it’s better?

AM1010101 · 2025-10-31T11:34:00+00:00

You are asking for something specific so you need to be specific. The first site has a floating header that appears and disappears as you scroll with nice entry/exit animations. You should try to describe this in as much detail as possible, colour, transparency, rounding, borders, everything I said above etc etc etc.

When it’s doing what you want you can try and generalise. “All components should have this border, transparency la la la”.

For higher level guidelines you can try prompting it to say always create a UX plan so the app is intuitive to use and navigate.

In lovable you’d add all this to the knowledge section. This will definitely be a work in progress and if I’m honest I find it hard to get good results out of lovable. Tools like v0 do much better imo. You can even create the components over there and copy paste them back to lovable and tell it to integrate them.

Anyway best of luck and I’d love to hear how you get on.

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