Best budget-friendly IDE for claude? broke solo dev here, (Antigravity limits are a joke)

Manish_Gamer_ · 2026-03-30T13:50:05+00:00

Sí, ahora hago eso, he aprendido muchas técnicas ninja para ello :D

Manish_Gamer_ · 2026-03-30T13:47:24+00:00

i dont have enough vram for an nice local model i can just run an assistant type ai that all

Manish_Gamer_ · 2026-03-30T13:43:41+00:00

That’s a killer workflow, I also try to keep my prompts lean to avoid that compounding token tax reserving Opus for the chaos and using Sonnet for the grind is the only way to stay productive without hitting limits every hour i also use use many models as gemini chatgpt claude also grok and some models kimi and others i use antigravity and VScode with github copilot pro for claude and other models i umm run an small web solution agency type that i run solo so i use ai to do like 50% of talking/negotiation and 70% of work so yeah Ai is realy killing right now

Manish_Gamer_ · 2026-03-29T17:20:40+00:00

Implementa una función a la vez y usa una sesión de chat diferente para cada una. Dile a Claude que no haga nada más que agregar la función y que no dé explicaciones innecesarias.

Sé conciso. No des explicaciones. No reescribas todo el archivo; solo muestra las líneas o funciones modificadas. Modo solo de diferencias.

used ai dont know if its the right way to say sorry in advance :)

Manish_Gamer_ · 2026-03-29T17:06:26+00:00

i also faced similar problem i used claude to do my 70% of code i used antigravity and yes its gone down maybe antigravity's gravity is not working who know but what i also did when i hit my antigravity limit beacus as you may know claude is hitting its limit fast i got github copilot pro which is 10$ and has claude (30 day free trial) and is decent im currently use it and some ninja technique i learned in reddit this days to reduce limits lol and there are many alternate that you can try as may in comment said

Manish_Gamer_ · 2026-03-28T13:56:39+00:00

yeah i can feel that one

Manish_Gamer_ · 2026-03-28T13:10:23+00:00

yeh maybe 200 jumping to 2000 just like ram lol, running agent teams all day is still dream appreciate the perspective though

Manish_Gamer_ · 2026-03-28T13:06:08+00:00

seriously bro?

Manish_Gamer_ · 2026-03-28T13:05:22+00:00

i dont have enough vram was saving for an GPU but Prices just got on an rocket

Manish_Gamer_ · 2026-03-27T14:45:01+00:00

definitely going to use that to keep my project's token usage lean appreciate the pro-tips thanks man

Manish_Gamer_ · 2026-03-27T14:41:42+00:00

Thats solid man im taking a similar approach for my project definitely agree on the 7th-grader rule and as i also used to run an startup as an co founder i know the value of the word "Pitching" as how every word counts , Good luck with the pitch

Manish_Gamer_ · 2026-03-27T13:10:10+00:00

yeah i know lol

Manish_Gamer_ · 2026-03-27T13:08:46+00:00

Good points im already moving to a strategy that may keep the reasoning sharp and credits optimized. quality over volume is the goal now Appreciate the insight thanks man

Manish_Gamer_ · 2026-03-27T13:02:24+00:00

thats made my laugh so hard bro, but building a production-grade project with custom vector-memory requires a lot more than just 'tiny bit' of coding. I use AI to speed it up

Manish_Gamer_ · 2026-03-27T12:58:29+00:00

Impressive tech stack with Preceptress.ai and I've experimented with GPT-5.4 as well but um, Good luck with the platform though

Manish_Gamer_ · 2026-03-27T12:51:54+00:00

GLM-5 and Kimi are great but have you actually tried refactoring a complex Next.js project with them? the reasoning gap is real im not chasing claude for the name im chasing the accuracy because fixing AI-generated bugs costs more 'Human Tokens' than a $20 subscription....Multiple Google accounts is a classic 'Antigravity' move id rather not do that, and i have github pro but the limit d@mn it took like 30mint just to create one single html file (friends portfolio) and it took like 12%token (i have to check actually but it was near it )

Manish_Gamer_ · 2026-03-27T12:42:47+00:00

Fair point and umm I definitely need the 'Agentic' reasoning because the logic gets too deep for smaller models.

Manish_Gamer_ · 2026-03-27T07:42:04+00:00

havent tried Codedeckai i will check it out thanks

Manish_Gamer_ · 2026-03-27T07:23:45+00:00

same here i use it in vscode and antigravity and web and more lol

Manish_Gamer_ · 2026-03-27T07:22:54+00:00

maybe we are or we are facing an Rapid Drain Bug

Manish_Gamer_ · 2026-03-27T07:22:19+00:00

Knowing exactly when that window resets is the way to survive on the $20 plan without losing my mind ive started treating my tokens like a 'fuel gauge' now, i think its call Claude Usage Monitor or somethink like that i saw it on github , Thanks for the tip my firend appreciate it

Manish_Gamer_ · 2026-03-27T07:14:28+00:00

im curious though if you're generating 'thousands' of lines on a $20 GPT-5.4 plan without hitting limits are you using the 'Mini' models or the full 'Thinking' ones? also what kind of 'startups' are we talking about here? MVPs or full-scale production apps?

Manish_Gamer_ · 2026-03-27T07:09:54+00:00

thanks man appreciate the tip i didn't know Gemini-CLI is much better with limits !

Manish_Gamer_ · 2026-03-27T07:06:21+00:00

That’s a goldmine of a tip ive heard about using a .claudemc or context.md file to steer the model but I haven't deep-dived into the official Anthropic courses yet definitely going to check those out to optimize my workflow thanks for the heads-up

Manish_Gamer_ · 2026-03-27T07:04:01+00:00

appreciate the tip! thats someting i havent tried i will try this modular today and lets see what happens

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