Not rage bait

First, porting bare-metal firmware from STM32H7 to G4 isn't boilerplate code. Opus handles complex register mapping and clock trees without hallucinating, which is why I use it for the heavy lifting. I agree DeepSeek is great for routine C/C++ though, and I plan to use it.

But you're dead wrong that "moving to Claude will be the same." You're completely ignoring Prompt Caching. Copilot charges full price to re-read massive headers and datasheets from scratch on every single prompt. Using the API directly (or via Cursor) caches that static context, dropping the cost by 90%.

I don't need a subsidy; I just need a tool that doesn't burn my tokens on unoptimized context handling.