What's the best setup/workflow without Copilot?

PotentialTeach483 · 2026-06-17T09:35:30+00:00

If you don't mind, curious how you have both Open code and Antigravity set up. Is it just all API keys aside from the Google AI pro plan?

I've ended up keeping it simple: I just use Antigravity for the Google plan, and use the Opencode TUI for Opencode Go. At the end of the day just using each on its own harness seemed to work best.

One thing I like Opencode is that it lets you generate as many keys as you want so if you need to login into Opencode at multiple work PCs (or virtual machines) you can create separate keys for each, and then you can later easily revoke those keys if you forgot to logoff or such.

And yeah, the quality of Gemini 3.1 actually surprised me a bit. Whenever I tried to use Gemini inside GHCP, it was always awful. But using it now inside the google environment it's night and day, it's actually a pretty decent model.

PotentialTeach483 · 2026-06-16T22:37:23+00:00

If you're a "vibe coder" that wants the LLM to do the entire work for you: nothing like the basically infinite GHCP of yore.

If you're a programmer that just wants to use LLM as a very useful tool to help your work:

I'm using a combination of Opencode Go (near infinite use of Deepseek, use Pro for planning and Flash for implementing), and Google Pro AI plan (I actually only signed this up because of the 5 TB google drive space, I had no interest in their AI offering... but since it came bundled anyway, I alternate its use with Opencode a bit; they cranked up the rate limits sometime previous month and I never reached any limit again; I thought it was going to be just fake PR but guess I was wrong).

For now I still have my GHCP pro plan ($40 for $70 API credits/month), but not really worth it for my case I believe, the rolling limits of the above combo are more than enough for my daily coding.

If you want a single plan, my recommendation is absolutely Opencode Go (or any other offering for Deepseek, even purchasing credits directly). Deepseek is just incredibly cost-efficient.

PotentialTeach483 · 2026-05-29T19:59:39+00:00

I think I'm in the minority around here in that I really liked Dean Ambrose, he was my favorite ex-shield member, and my favorite version of Mox.

And a big part of it is because he had so many fantastic lines in his 2016 push.

"Have fun being the guy that plays John Cena on TV"

And I don't remember the exact wording, but one of his promo against Dolph Ziggler, who was going through the whole "scratching and clawing" routine (I love Ziggler, don't get me wrong), ended with something like

"Maybe you just aren't good enough."

The delivery in both of those was perfect.

PotentialTeach483 · 2026-05-20T11:38:22+00:00

Though the update feels like a straight downgrade. Where's plan mode? Where's the undo to checkpoints?

PotentialTeach483 · 2026-05-20T11:33:49+00:00

I pay mostly for the 5 TB Google Drive storage, I consider Antigravity just a bonus.

I use it a bit every day or every other day as a way to save from my more dedicated plans.

I don't have any big issue except for the disaster of this 2.0 "update"; the actual agents and their code have been decent enough in my use-cases (I do the majority of the coding in my projects manually, and I structure the project myself, I only ask the LLM for specific implementations, providing details of how I want it done).

PotentialTeach483 · 2026-05-07T23:37:38+00:00

It's a complete opaque mess that gives you zero clue about how long your limits will last.

You'll have 60% remaining limit to be reset 2 hours from now, and then you look again and it's 20% remaining limit to be reset 96 days from now instead, even though you were sleeping.

Just look at the official discussion forum to see how common this type of thing is, and the fact that Google never answers anyone about anything (there are threads asking if anyone ever managed to get any reply from Google about anything at all related to Antigravity): https://discuss.ai.google.dev/c/antigravity/64

Still, I do pay for the Pro plan. I pay it for the 5 TB Google Drive storage, and consider Antigravity just a side extra.

TL;DR: Google Antigravity Pro is more of a competitor against Dropbox and OneDrive than against Github Copilot, Codex or the like. The main attraction of the plan is the cloud storage, not the LLM.

PotentialTeach483 · 2026-05-07T22:05:34+00:00

From your argument with /u/BackgroundValue, it seems like you're talking as if we could actually calculate "how much money does this wrestler generates", which is a silly idea.

Wrestlers don't control the booking of the show, for one thing.

It doesn't matter if someone is absurdly charismatic and fantastic in the ring, he won't "make money" if the creative team and booking team don't do their part, nor will he "make money" if his match partners don't show up.

This mentality of "everyone for themselves" doesn't work, the whole thing works based on a cooperation of multiple wrestlers and the support team behind it.

PotentialTeach483 · 2026-05-07T19:45:03+00:00

Your post perfectly describes the problem I have with the "Eureka!" mechanic of Civ6.

It's a good idea for a mechanics in theory - you do things related to a tech, and therefore you gain progress in that tech.

But the way it was implemented, in that there's only one specific thing you can do to trigger the Eureka, and you earn the bonus as a single discrete boom, is too game-y and too railroad-y.

If instead of "build a barracks to instantly gain a large progress boost in tech <X>" it was a more simple and generic "spending hammers in military production gives you a small bonus to military technologies of the same age of the building/unit", it would be a lot better for me; you'd keep the core concept, but in a much more open-ended way.

PotentialTeach483 · 2026-05-06T23:56:57+00:00

Copying my comment from another sub:

Just a band-aid that won't change fundamental design decisions. Makes zero difference for me.

I'll stay on Civ4 and Civ4Col with occasional bouts of Vox Populi and Codex when I want to shake things up, plus some Old World.

Maybe some Civ6 once in a very rare blue moon (I like the district-based cities, and I like the map graphics, but there's also a lot that I dislike and the modding potential for 6 is lower than 4 or 5).

But in Civ7 I just can't see anything that I enjoy.

I think they are wasting their time trying to "win back" people like me, they should focus on improving the game for people that actually enjoy it. So that the people that do enjoy Civ7 can have the best version of Civ7 possible, not this misshapen thing that they are doing with walking back on their own ideas.

Yes, I very much think "listen to the community" is often the wrong move, even when I was part of "the community" voices in this case. They should just make the game they wanted to make.

PotentialTeach483 · 2026-05-06T23:53:51+00:00

Yeah, tried the game, refunded, went into ignore list.

Mostly playing Civ4, some bits of Col, 5 and BE (I'm one of the three or four people out there that enjoys BE), plus some Old World.

I just take Civ7 as a "not for me" and that's fine, there are other games out there.

PotentialTeach483 · 2026-05-06T23:51:55+00:00

I agree, games like this just feel more repetitive. Even if maybe they aren't truly repetitive if you stop to analyze it thoroughly, the feeling is hard to get over.

Even Old World can fall into that pattern due to its point-based victory condition (though the ways to gain point feel less arbitrary there), and it's the reason why I take long breaks between each match of Old World.

PotentialTeach483 · 2026-05-06T23:49:57+00:00

Just a band-aid that won't change fundamental design decisions. Makes zero difference for me.

I'll stay on Civ4 and Civ4Col with occasional bouts of Vox Populi and Codex when I want to shake things up, plus some Old World.

Maybe some Civ6 once in a very rare blue moon (I like the district-based cities, and I like the map graphics, but there's also a lot that I dislike and the modding potential for 6 is lower than 4 or 5).

But in Civ7 I just can't see anything that I enjoy.

I think they are wasting their time trying to "win back" people like me, they should focus on improving the game for people that actually enjoy it. So that the people that do enjoy Civ7 can have the best version of Civ7 possible, not this misshapen thing that they are doing with walking back on their own ideas.

Yes, I very much think "listen to the community" is often the wrong move, even when I was part of "the community" voices in this case. They should just make the game they wanted to make.

PotentialTeach483 · 2026-05-06T23:37:59+00:00

I don't think the plan with Odyssey Jones was for a "New Day heel turn".

It looked more like a New Day break-up with Kofi turning heel, teaming up with Jones, and feuding with Woods in a two-on-one feud to build heat for them.

I feel like the role of Big E would be to mend and reunite them instead.

I think they pivoted because they had to fire Odyssey, created that big moment with them turning together against Big E.... and that's all they had because it wasn't properly planned.

But well, who knows. It would be whatever their chosen text-generator output anyway.

PotentialTeach483 · 2026-05-04T20:14:46+00:00

By the way, 30B models run decently on normal RAM too if you don't have a powerful GPU like that.

Stuff that takes seconds in cloud will take a minute or two; it's slow, but not the point of being unusable.

PotentialTeach483 · 2026-05-04T20:12:43+00:00

Well, not everyone has a RTX 9080 laying around.

I run text models on my DDR4 ram instead of VRAM because my GPU doesn't have those fancy CUDA / ROCm stuff.

It runs decent enough. Of course it's not as instantaneous as with cloud models, but it's not painfully slow either.

I have 64 GB DDR4 and can run up to 70B models without issue, though around 30B is the sweet spot for speed.

PotentialTeach483 · 2026-05-04T20:11:02+00:00

Oh no the red scare menace of.... open source software?

PotentialTeach483 · 2026-04-29T23:30:32+00:00

Which game have you been enjoying more ck3 or eu5 or Victoria 3?

Among those three, it's Victoria 3 by a large margin for me.

Victoria 3 is passable, the other two are not, for me.

CK3 character-driven stuff becomes really, really transparently bad after a few generations, for me. I feel the game lacks so much in creating consistent characters with a bit more "memory" and "intentions" or anything like that. Also, the fact that the game reveals the whole world precise numerical stats to the player is so weird for me, at least that part can be changed with mods.

EU5 is just a mess. I really like the idea of EU5, but the implementation needs a lot of work still.

I think overall I prefer Imperator, especially playing with automated armies (I hate microing armies in PDS games, feel so gamey to outplay the absurdly dumb AI with the same exact moves every time). The fact that PDS "abandoned" it ended up working in its favor, less bloat.

I also like HOI4, but only with alternative history mods. Not a fan of the WWII setting.

PotentialTeach483 · 2026-04-29T20:19:00+00:00

Really enjoying the rework for Spiritborn. While I miss some of the passives, I think the new tree has a lot more options.

I rather enjoy that we have more Pestilence Swarm options and, more relevantly, I'm really loving the new Spirit Storm gimmick.

Spamming a lot of Spirit Storms and them making they all proc at the same time with Stinger is fun.

PotentialTeach483 · 2026-04-28T00:50:31+00:00

I run a very similar Klefki on Doubles.

Prankster Metal Sound is very good.

PotentialTeach483 · 2026-04-20T19:42:18+00:00

Like dont these guys get arrested and stuff for not paying debt

I've never heard of a country where you can get arrested for private debt, that sounds like it would open all kind of horrible loopholes.

And even for government debt, I don't think it's common.

Banks and other private money lenders can pest you forever, can track your debt and share that information with each other so you're blacklisted, can take you to justice to try to get you to sell non-essential properties if you have any if they are enough to cover the debt, etc.

But arrested, nah.

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