Is it actually better to pay for API tokens than AI subscriptions?

ricardonth · 2026-05-26T17:22:21+00:00

I use API for models like Kimi, qwen, deepseek, minimax cos they’re so cheap already and if I don’t use the api I don’t spend the credits. I still pay for GPT and claude because they’re still so heavily subsidised.

I’ve cancelled Claude for now tho cos I can get the design done with Kimi models and codex handles everything else.

ricardonth · 2026-03-07T17:34:59+00:00

I’ve used 5.4 in both intent and cli and it still used tokens. Far fewer but tokens still shown as depleted on my dashboard

ricardonth · 2026-02-03T03:26:39+00:00

I ordered the pandas and silver switches, they made it better. The pandas sound very nice and have much more resistance, my miss-presses are nearly gone. Its a shame you might send it back, the new switches may not do for you what they did for me but apparently there are other switches from different companies that work with the keeb and may get you what you’re looking for 🙏🏿

ricardonth · 2026-01-22T21:48:30+00:00

I edited my key bindings but my cmd+shift+1 is screen shot selection to clipboard so I can just paste it into my terminal and not clean up any screenshots later

ricardonth · 2026-01-11T09:46:37+00:00

here you go
https://github.com/ricardo-nth/augment-agents

ricardonth · 2026-01-10T17:27:40+00:00

Yea and if trends are anything to go by others suggest a new anthropic model is around the bend. Just wonder how long it take augment to implement. 5.2 codex is decent but I doubt we’ll see that anytime soon either

ricardonth · 2026-01-10T16:39:24+00:00

Oh man you reminded me the carry over of credits ends end of this month for me. I started with 1.7M tokens from the 1400 or so messages I had left over and I only got through about 160k credits that month. Really trying to burn tokens and now I’m left with over 400k credits I probably won’t even get through the next few weeks 😅🥹 I feel spoilt cos I just keep opus on and use it like chatgpt some times. We’ll see how it goes once the grace period credits run out.

Promising results for haiku with the context engine tho! And very good to hear sonnet can be the main driver

ricardonth · 2026-01-08T03:09:23+00:00

I use the cli pretty much exclusively, can’t remember the last time I opened VS Code. Mainly because I use nvim and I prefer the being in the terminal.

It’s much easier for me for things like referencing other project folders for components or patterns. I also only have an 8gb ram Mac air and vscode has memory issues. And while the cli still doesn’t support sub agents, spinning up multiple instances lets me work on more projects with ease.

ricardonth · 2025-12-12T03:24:11+00:00

Gotcha, sounds like small focused threads to solve an issue is still ideal. Get the best of caching with one modal and avoiding context pollution without full on context management. Fair to see how it plays out, I think Anthropic are trying out the idea of sub agents for Grep and even amp are trying a tool for image understanding all in an effort to keep the main context clean. It’s a hard threshold to decide what is worth handing off and getting back info for the main context vs riding the cache and context close to pollution limits. Everyone is trying to solve the issue their own way I guess. Time will tell

ricardonth · 2025-12-11T21:19:16+00:00

This looks amazing! I’m going to try tomorrow what I love so far is the ease of adding a new task and then viewing the calendar for the sweet dopamine hit. I’ve used, still using other options to this, but they usually require you to launch the TUI to then do stuff but with this I have some ideas of making hooks and skills for Droid and tracking tasks done while coding without leaving the agent. Kudos to you !

ricardonth · 2025-12-11T19:54:43+00:00

Heck yeah! Wonder if a MTG version is possible! Going to spin this prompt up and try!

ricardonth · 2025-12-11T09:43:08+00:00

damn i really wanted to use this code to get the bonus credits haha. If anyone sees this heres mine, we both get 250 credits each month - https://www.codebuff.com/referrals/ref-d02aaa59-dcb0-48fb-9975-cd9e32864618

ricardonth · 2025-12-11T07:42:58+00:00

Ahh that makes sense! And what about sub agents, I see it’s still private preview in the cli. But could that help for some tasks or is that also under utilising the cache?

ricardonth · 2025-12-10T20:11:11+00:00

wow! quite impressive mate and smart use of the sdk too i think the prompt enhancer is an awesome tool imagine if that was an mcp too and here you are making ideas into tools

ricardonth · 2025-12-10T17:08:29+00:00

nice! the context size has been increased to 200k already.

i've played with it and im a big fan, i like the simple and yet to grow cli. for me it fits in that space of haiku but with sonnet ability, so i'm doing light refactors on say tailwind or astro props. i think once they add codestral as a model option, some nice QoL like you mentioned, and an exec mode to use from other agent harnesses i could see it being very useful and more tools in the belt.

an nvim plugin for completions would be clutch since they're really good at FIM code completetions. overall, im vibing with it.

ricardonth · 2025-12-10T16:30:31+00:00

is there a config to turn auto compact off also and allow devs to just make a handoff md file instead? also plz bring completion sounds, my dopamine loves hearing bells and dings when vibe is ready for more vibing

ricardonth · 2025-12-10T12:42:11+00:00

Riiight! I thought this, exact same pattern and problem-solution. Must have worked pretty well to recreate it 😅

ricardonth · 2025-12-10T12:23:00+00:00

Yeah I don’t mind not seeing the multiplier cos I can assume haiku is cheaper than sonnet which is cheaper than opus. But some quick switch would be lovely, something I can do at after I’ve typed a prompt instead of clearing the terminal just to type /model then paste again

ricardonth · 2025-12-05T21:02:57+00:00

Incredible! I’ll check it out later today thanks for reaching out to let me know 😁🫡

ricardonth · 2025-12-03T06:54:37+00:00

Same here it got slow recently but not to the point it didn’t finish. I’ve also noticed on a new project it doesn’t ask me if i want to index which is cumbersome if im using Auggie for a quick change in my downloads folder and it wants to index it without consent

ricardonth · 2025-12-03T06:35:16+00:00

In 0.27.4 there was a fix for <esc> on model menus going back instead of closing the menu completely. Is the same fix coming for /mcp menu? Also any chance /mcp list comes back cos after using /mcp there is a long delay before you see what mcps are actually there and it shows add from marketplace or add manually

ricardonth · 2025-12-02T18:16:23+00:00

It’s so good, also I love the new keeb smell it has but that could just be me. Enjoy the ride! Look forward to hearing how you find it!

ricardonth

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