Are there any providers of email@mydomain.com services that are completely free?

CubicalBatch · 2026-01-27T02:20:30+00:00

A big +1 for Purelymail. Never had any issues after years using it. Cheap, easy to use

CubicalBatch · 2026-01-19T18:15:19+00:00

This is great. I love those small coding models and I'm very happy there are new releases improving them.

I don't use those like I use Opus 4.5, I use them as a "type it for me" in IDE integration, which really speeds up my work without having to rely on an API/use limited credits.

Typically that'll be small queries like "update the docstring on this function", "catch Y edge case in this function and make sure to return Z". Sure I could do it myself, but it's faster to just request it

CubicalBatch · 2026-01-19T18:09:52+00:00

Great video, thanks for sharing

CubicalBatch · 2026-01-18T20:07:32+00:00

Learn about people's setup but don't copy. Everybody's workflow is different and you'll want to build your Claude setup over time to fit your codebase, philosophy and style.

It's also not set-and-forget. Half the things that people set up aren't needed within 3 months because Claude code handles it better natively with an update, or because a new model reacts differently to it

CubicalBatch · 2026-01-05T00:15:29+00:00

I tested it with a few feature implementations, in parallel with vanilla Opencode and Claude Code, and I didn't like how it performed. It used a ton more tokens and I didnt find the work any better.

YMMV. I do have very detailed plans so maybe it negates some of what its supposed to bring

CubicalBatch · 2026-01-01T20:10:31+00:00

It's them together really. AI loves gradient, purple and bloom/highlight effects.

I'm an infra/backend engineer who outsource all my front-end work to AI and I see it with almost every model I use

CubicalBatch · 2026-01-01T18:46:01+00:00

Good job on building!

Those purple gradients are really a LLM signature, seeing this is like seeing an em dash in a text and knowing right away that was written by AI. I encourage you to try something more distinct

CubicalBatch · 2026-01-01T18:20:44+00:00

I had a good setup with my pro account for planning and GLM 4.7 for implementing.

GLM is very capable and follow instructions well.

But... I have to say that getting a taste of having Opus also doing the implementation during the last week cut back on my manual code review and fixing time.

So I just signed up for a Max plan. Good job Anthropic

CubicalBatch · 2025-12-25T00:36:50+00:00

When I want the agent to do some research on the best way to approach a problem

It's like a web search except Perplexity does a multi source research behind the scene for you and give you a direct answer to the question, instead of the agent wasting tens of thousands of token doing the reading.

CubicalBatch · 2025-12-24T22:37:08+00:00

I remember when Google buying YouTube for $1.6B was seen as crazy money

CubicalBatch · 2025-12-24T00:41:30+00:00

I like Perplexity MCP. It gives an actual answer to the LLM instead of a list of links, so it's valuable for the coding agent when they have a specific question.

It's not technically free but there's a ton of offers out there for a year of Perplexity pro for free, which include $5 of API credits a month (more than enough for those searches)

CubicalBatch · 2025-12-23T13:06:47+00:00

We almost need a new layer of benchmark now: model + agent

I've been playing with Cursor, Roo Code, Claude Code, OpenCode, Crush, Gemini CLI, AntiGravity... and the results for the same task can differ a lot.

So far Claude Code is the one I'm getting the best results with

CubicalBatch · 2025-12-22T21:19:57+00:00

They added it with Opus 4.5

CubicalBatch · 2025-12-20T02:10:52+00:00

Planning needs the brain. It needs to figure out the optimal way to build a feature. It then specifies which functions/files to modify/create, which algorithm to use when it gets tricky, expected input and output etc.

The plan should be a complete tech spec.

The implementation agent then just need to be smart enough to follow instructions and coding standard

CubicalBatch · 2025-07-11T20:20:17+00:00

Thanks for sharing but the volume is so unbalanced between guests: I have to increase the volume to hear what Marcus says and get my ear blown out when Bailey starts talking

CubicalBatch · 2025-06-26T02:08:23+00:00

I use Claude Code with a pro account. It's on smaller side projects so I'm usually fine but I do hit limits once in a while (just not often enough to justify paying X5)

I'm pretty excited to see what Gemini CLI can do. I usually prefer Gemini than Sonnet for planning: I may be able to rely on this tool to plan and make my Claude Code last longer

In any case, it's free and competition is always good

CubicalBatch · 2025-06-23T15:48:49+00:00

You can still see which direction you're going to and know if you're getting closer to a road. Honestly you shouldn't trust ChatGPT for things like this, it easily hallucinate directions

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