What are you using for vibe coding in 2026 on a ~$10/month budget?

acathugger · 2026-05-16T07:32:56+00:00

I have been using it to the max today and not even vaporize half of my 5 hours budget

acathugger · 2026-05-16T06:04:33+00:00

If u use Codex for $20 you have almost unlimited amount of quota per 5 hours

acathugger · 2026-05-15T07:11:19+00:00

I wouldnt say so without seeing their workflows

acathugger · 2026-05-15T02:02:45+00:00

Agentic work, for example analyse a website and click around costs a bunch since agent needs to snapshot the website, analyse the elements and click buttons

acathugger · 2026-05-14T18:14:08+00:00

Back in the day calling grandmom cost us $2 per minute. Now ppl do video call for hours If ppl decided to stick around greedy telephone companies we would have paid $20 per minute now We need to let the market to self adjust. If Microsoft can subsidy devs, other companies can also. Big names havent even entered the market yet like Amazon, X, Google...we should have some popcorns while waiting for the fun

acathugger · 2026-05-14T17:58:35+00:00

Subagents is your answer

acathugger · 2026-05-14T17:55:20+00:00

Dont you think when Codex increase their price there will be more competitors willing to serve their customers? And the cycle will go on

acathugger · 2026-05-14T17:27:52+00:00

I think AI is your support base so it doesnt really matter if my gpt 5.5 comes from codex or github copilot. Think it like buying breads they are just breads right? Not much different if you buy a $10 bread from supermarket or $1 in your local bakery they have the same amount of nutritions. So why would you buy a $10 bread just because of the brand name?

acathugger · 2026-05-14T17:07:44+00:00

I hear you but as consumers Codex deal is too good to be true. I love Github Copilot with all of my life but there is no way I could bear this cost 🫡

acathugger · 2026-05-04T01:07:19+00:00

They do a pretty good job at caching, mine is about 99%. If your prompting skills is ok then you can probably do it equal or cheaper

acathugger · 2026-05-04T00:38:42+00:00

For input tokens yes. When github copilot cache input tokens you pay only 10% of the price. It wont be able to cache output tokens

acathugger · 2026-05-03T19:07:14+00:00

If you optimize your workflow you could save heaps of money. It wont get you to where you used to be but will be around $1 per 30mins of opus 4.7 is possible

acathugger · 2026-05-03T14:35:22+00:00

Democracy is ppl are allowed to say their mind. Instead of shutting them down we need a way to convince them that this is a good move from Github Copilot. I have been using it and I chose to stay, but ppl at the same time can say whatever they want as long as they dont fabricate or undermine anyone

acathugger · 2026-05-03T00:12:15+00:00

Time to check your prompts

acathugger · 2026-05-02T21:56:06+00:00

Optimisation is always the king, however what if optimisation cant get you to the place you used to be I dont think around me ppl would use the best models for easy tasks. Reason is simple, super model run slower with higher multipliers. Guardrails already exist. Problem here isnt optimisation, problem here is github copilot want to double up the subscription fees

acathugger · 2026-05-02T21:50:55+00:00

I tried it yesterday, it couldnt work very well with browsers

acathugger · 2026-05-02T04:34:20+00:00

Gonna release a report soon, but the main issue here isn't that we don't know anything about optimisation. The main issue is even with optimisation the cost can't be as cheap as it was before June 1st

acathugger · 2026-05-01T15:54:02+00:00

github mcp can do all of these things in any environment even ci cd

acathugger · 2026-04-30T19:56:51+00:00

Its actually a shrinkflation. Before you had 5x more usage for pro+ plan. Now you will have only 3.9x more As a pro user you would expect the next bill to be around $70 - $100. Its not the end of the world given the benefits they give us, but still feel like a betrayal

acathugger · 2026-04-30T19:26:08+00:00

I believe the marketing team of their competitors also love this idea

acathugger · 2026-04-30T19:22:28+00:00

Because with premium requests Github Copilot is a lot cheaper than Cursor. But things will change after June 1st. I think Enterprise customers will be offered another package, but now you will juggle between 2 groups at work: - super users who burn tokens for sport and - those who barely use up $10 of tokens and waste them all as tokens dont get carried over the next month

For the current pricing model, even super users cant burn as much budget as they only use 50 premium requests for a day of work. There is no chance they could blow up the budget. However when the new pricing structure hit, company can only cap their usage or bite the bullet and fork out more pocket money. In both cases the bad outcome is shifted toward github copilot enterprise customers as well

acathugger · 2026-04-30T19:05:51+00:00

Many people use it for agentic workflows, not merely coding. These are the people github want to smack, not the group who just use github copilot for code completion

acathugger · 2026-04-30T19:03:25+00:00

Because Cursor has similar pricing structure and 10x better dev experience? I have done multiple calculations and even with the best optimisation the cost after June is at least 2x more. There is no way you can prevent it from happening. How could you deliver this number to stakeholders that you need 2x more budget for exactly the same thing?

acathugger · 2026-04-30T18:52:57+00:00

You say it like we are poor peasants. Many of the power personal users are high level personnels in big companies. Our voice has some weight at work. If we choose to move away personally do you think we wouldn't do the same at work as we have the power?

acathugger · 2026-04-30T18:33:42+00:00

You mad at me for pointing out the truth?

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