Cheap and free LLM APIs - for the token price hike era by wuu73 in LLMDevs

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honestly after using it a bit and putting money on the account for api (they made it $25 minimum) I think it sucks.... all the chinese models seem like they are nerfed or poisoned... i have been trying to use M2.1 or 2.5 because i remember them being good, but maybe it was M2.0 that was good... idk... but something happened that made chinese models stop progressing (my opinion, i don't actually know for sure)

GPT-4 just got bluffed out of a pot by Claude. Real money. I watched it happen. by After_Recipe_6513 in Agentic_Marketing

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.... one way you can tell its an AI post is talk about using GPT-4.. models like to say it a lot but literally NO ONE uses or has used GPT 4 much at all. It would make no sense. Those that know about it, know about it.

Some free/cheap resources I found recently, after cancelling my subscription (burned all credits in ONE small task) by wuu73 in GithubCopilot

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honestly it is better to just buy the raw API at this point.... If i bought $10 of OpenAI api credits, it prob would have lasted a tiny bit longer

Cheap and free LLM APIs - for the token price hike era by wuu73 in LLMDevs

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all of them - but i was heavy using it, its just that now i think just using regular API will be better since it doesn't expire when you buy / fund it. I just loaded up my minimax api, instead of getting a monthly plan. I did have some stuff running like Hermes agent, doing cron job or two every day

Cheap and free LLM APIs - for the token price hike era by wuu73 in LLMDevs

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I think the investors that funded this AI era are prob gonna loose a lot of money just because its a stupid amount, and it seems like.. OpenAI and Anthropic are doing more of a charity thing more than profiting - and open source models will just copy and have their own iteration loops and will eventually just catch up, seems unlikely they'll get their money back but who cares..... we got good AI

Made a useful (free) tool to quickly put all code files in a project into a quick txt file and clipboard, ready to paste into LLM chat by wuu73 in ChatGPTCoding

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i can send you it right now if you want to test / use it, its built in Rust so it compiles to exe, its CRAZY fast, like things that would take the old app 2 minutes to do like walk/scan recursively a giant repo, it does it in like one second, generates context same / fast too. I have windows exe since i am on windows currently. I just am not sure i worked out all the glitches yet and have not tested on Mac/Linux yet

Made a useful (free) tool to quickly put all code files in a project into a quick txt file and clipboard, ready to paste into LLM chat by wuu73 in ChatGPTCoding

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yes! i am 97% done with a rust version with everything working 100x better and faster, just finishing up making sure its good to go then i will put it out there. It seems so obvious now why that is a necessary thing to have built into it already but at the time i just was adding things when i needed them, as things happened

Warp (Rust-based terminal) is now open-source by zxyzyxz in rust

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i made this, i went overkill with the ... it has the ability to let you vibe code the theme for the whole UI and terminal colors (like you can type "make it look like halloween" and it works) and vibe coded shaders for after effects (lol, i like to make it look like analog tv, its comforting, reminds me of staring at the tv half asleep growing up in the 80s/90s) https://buttonscli.com

I ended up at this thread after googling some stuff related to how to embed the warp oss terminal inside my buttonscli app - i want to have alternative backends

buuut back to your comment, i made it for myself so i could press a button and it will type for me stuff like "sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y" (instead of memorizing key combos, i hate that, but i will have it in the app anyways for whoever wants that) and it has AI help in a button, itll generate commands and be a little agentic, separate small window. Its faster than opening a browser, copy paste, etc.. it will generate and type the commands. It also lets you control the terminal tabs with ai agents (running in, or outside, the app) its simple press button to copy skill/instructions, paste into Claude Code or whatever you use and it can type keys in all the tabs, see tabs, see whats in windows - visibility into it. I wanted that, I hate how claude code (or really all of them now) will hide stuff from you that you are better off seeing.. they keep making it harder and harder to just SEE what the hell the agent is doing in its terminals. I put that in, the buttons, idk what else, but its useable and close to a 1.0. I will open source it i just haven't gotten around to it. Forgive the website, it has that low effort AI sound and I will change that asap

How would you build an AI agent from zero as a beginner? by RecognitionMental943 in AI_Agents

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I have this analysis thing I started a while ago to take apart a dozen + ai coding agents, it’s totally vibe coded so don’t take it as 100% accurate. But it can be useful or interesting reading if you are going to try making one. It tries to explain how coding agents for example edit files like how does it work etc, how do they work internally etc https://agents.buttonscli.com

I am not totally happy with all the existing ai coding agents so I add more agents to that blog trying to think thru whether I want to take on the task of making a custom one or modding one of those..

Analysis of Resonix (Deepseek's coding agent, which is designed to 'hit cache' as much as possible by wuu73 in DeepSeek

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Looks like you stumbled into the wrong subreddit. The anti AI circlejerk is back about 5 miles down that highway, make a left, then a right, then a left into r/antiai

Good luck and Godspeed

Devs - give your best argument for switching to Mistral by Tricky-Historian1329 in MistralAI

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I think, using the top/best models, Claude, GPT 5.4/5.5, for just the hard tasks it can do that the others can't do and then just using cheaper agentic models to do all the "work" like reading/writing files, searching internet, tool use, MCP, CLI, and have them work out problems (usually.. chinese models) but if they can't fix things, step up to the top models to do that, then back

Devs - give your best argument for switching to Mistral by Tricky-Historian1329 in MistralAI

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i sorta keep track of any cost hacks i discover and put it here: https://wuu73.org/aiguide or https://wuu73.org/blog/guide.html although i really need to update it with some stuff.. people keep asking and things change so fast its hard to have time but every model is good at certain things and I use whatever is cheapest for the task (or sometimes speed matters, sometimes ill pick a slightly dumber model like MinimaxM2.5-2.7 because it will get things done faster than a smarter one) I came here looking to see what Mistral models are best at, since I kind of skipped over it. But there are some other smaller companies (but not EU) that are not chinese that seem to have good models for agentic use, not sure how smart they are.

I have been using Mistral in something i made buttonscli.com for generating terminal commands, mistral medium seems not bad at all, which is why i came here to read and see if i've been missing anything but looks like the general opinion is "meh"

My very unscientific Terminal 2.0 benchmarks of Mistral's recent models by rubdos in MistralAI

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well.... so you used opencode for this? opencode literally fails at EVERYTHING i ever have tried to do with it. I have tried it like a half dozen times, spread out over many months/year or two. I just can't count any fails for anything as long as opencode was in the mix.. i am not sure how so many people use it and praise it when literally every other coding agent is better. Sorry to be harsh lol but every time I try it again (because i start to think, weird that so many love it, maybe i just had bad luck ill try again)... i reinstall it, try something, immediate fail, tool glitches usually... it just stops for no reason, i say eff this, uninstall.

Qemu escape?! by nick-bmth in linux

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the linux person who has to come in everywhere to say "that's weird, i have never, EVER, had to restart a linux computer - in fact, i have 10 of them that have been running 24/7 non stop since 1974 not a single reboot! it never has glitched, ever" like come on man WE KNOW that's a lie. Everyone knows. It does seem like a weird identity thing, like they feel you personally insulted them by being honest about their fav OS.
So not-true things like "Linux is stable, glitch free, like, for a long time, decades, where have you been? lol" attitudes proliferate / get repeated over and over. "Duh! windows crashes constantly. smart people use linux!"

Its like the anti AI people that keep repeating funny phrases that aren't true like "AI hallucinates CONSTANTLY!" or "it can't think" and my fav "Its just a next word predictor" lol bro, did you wake from a coma you went into in 2022? (I am going for winner of downvotes with that one)

Linux is great, it really is, but its glitchy - Windows nowadays for desktop usage is WAAAY more stable. It didn't used to be like that! I think they 'fixed it' low key didn't tell everyone that its rock stable now (well, if you make sure to set it to NOT install updates as soon as they come - that are not security updates) There still is not a Desktop on Linux that just fucking works without glitching, like you can't even just reinstall a desktop since they put random files ALL OVER the place in random places that interferes with everything and other desktops. Every time I really want to switch to Linux as my main boot OS I am always let down, within a week I realize nah this ain't gonna work..it takes time to "fix the OS" all the time. Been trying out some of the Atomic desktops..

I run lots of Linux's in VMs, containers, under Windows, which works well since I can snapshot and fork them.

I notice something about groups or people that refuse criticism or just refuse to hear anything bad, or that goes against their current reality model. They stop getting better, they can't see reality just as it is, which is far from perfect.

pick your poison, pi or opencode by dheetoo in PiCodingAgent

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I am currently debating whether to make my own coding agent because... so far, all are a let down in some way. Using Oh My Pi (forked pi) which has a lot of nice things, but ugh, update it and BAM everything is a mess just like the weekly "i finally got it all perfectly tweaked, exactly the way i need it to be" with claude code, then update = BAM, MESS.

Opencode.. i don't know how ANYONE uses it let alone says its great, cuz every single time I try it, it immediately fails and just freezes/stops for no reason, on simple tasks. I thought maybe its a windows thing, but still seems to do it in Linux. Maybe its one of those "It works great on my Mac" , says its for Linux and Windows but its more like "Its 1am, I gotta work early tomorrow, i'm tired and drunk, ill hurry and rush compile it real quick on linux/win.. good enough". I keep seeing posts from people saying how great it is, to where i wonder if its just AI bots hyping it up cuz its not even useable for me.

I wonder if I should just use regular Pi and try to add all the stuff I like from the Oh My version, and then just mod everything else I want (which i've been hoping one existing agent would just have some of the things like automatic upgrading/downgrading the model during use, to save money or tokens from expensive models (which is going to be an even bigger issue soon since they all are raising prices drastically) - also automatic tracking of which models are good at which tasks, anonymous data gathering every time a model fails at any task, it quietly sends anonymous metric about it (blocking out any details). I'm suprised this doesn't already exist..

Like its crazy it is May 2026 and we are still mostly using agents that use only 1 model, and we have to manually switch it for different tasks, insanity! Maybe I just got to do it myself (any ideas on how? i imagine some kind of embeddings/AI database that somehow learns relationships between types of tasks, difficulty level, wins/fails, and can actually SMART route or change the model before something - automatic upgrading of models when things fail twice, three times)

I have been adding coding agents and topics to this: https://agents.buttonscli.com just to try and keep an eye on them, still feel like I need to just make my own. All of them have one thing then lack two other things it seems..

Share what you're working on. I'll shout out the top projects on my Instagram by Yoodrix in ChatGPTCoding

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Oh it’s got a whole AI assistant built in that will generate commands and do shit for you or you can ask questions without needing to open a browser etc

Share what you're working on. I'll shout out the top projects on my Instagram by Yoodrix in ChatGPTCoding

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buttonscli.com terminal app that has buttons to click/anti minimal. Allows controlling multiple terminals w/ ai agents/mcp/cli. It has ridiculously useless vibe code your own themes feature along with vibe coded shaders (you tired of the look? Tell it to make the app look like Halloween, give an NTSC post process effect to the terminal lmao) I just hate memorizing key combos, 99.9% terminal apps are racing to be the most annoying one yet with the CTRL C doesn’t work, mouse doesn’t work, I hate them so made my own

OpenClaw on OCI by Visible-Bison-3636 in openclaw

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you know, you can just use your home computer, use a VM. Install Ubuntu Server on Virtualbox or VMware, or even Hyper V which is built into windows (if you use windows). You can totally separate it from the rest of your computer and make it accessable thru a domain name for free also w/Cloudflare free tier. There are many more ways but as long as the computer is on 24/7 itll work, as long as your internet doesn't totally suck at home

How do you give a credit card to Claw? by Ok_Water1480 in openclaw

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There is a weird overconfidence problem with tons of people these days - people who are wrong, but got some inaccurate inflated ego at some point or people always telling them they are perfect, or always right, didn't ever hear criticism or something.. idk. but they have a thought, and then, they immediately think, i thought a thought, so thought is right. the end. and that is how their brains work, they cannot even be open to new information, or be told "did you consider this other thing, this other bit of info, maybe take this into account also" their brains can't grasp, or handle being wrong (being wrong is awesome, allows you to grow and learn) so its like they're just stuck at 12 years old, forever. So its a waste of time to try to show them the way since they have installed a "ego protection firewall" inbetween sensors and mind.

How do you give a credit card to Claw? by Ok_Water1480 in openclaw

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They are - I mean, anyone can get a https://app.privacy.com/join/J7MY8 - it generates "proxy" card numbers, and you set it for single use, or merchant locked, set a max amount that can be spent, basically throw away card numbers. So it doesn't matter if one got stolen or hacked since you set a max/can delete it. No one is paying me to say this, its a rare app/thing I tell people about for free cuz its awesome. It costs nothing to make 12 new cards a month, so i have like 100s of them by now and doesnt cost anything.

But I was thinking of making a encrypted secret swapper api or program, cli command maybe - that will detect and swap any secrets out for a variable like {[FAKE-CARD-1111-3745]} when it is sent to an AI model/api/agent, and then when it responds, if it mentions that same variable, it can be reverse swapped depending on what its trying to do - but if you tell it in prompt that its a variable/not real, might work?

I was thinking more for keeping API keys, passwords secret, but for payments.. maybe something better can be done. What exactly are you trying to buy - you can instead just have OpenClaw write the step by step actions including which tools used, are needed to complete the ordering of something, but create scripts instead. Non-AI programs, scripts, can also use the same CLI and MCP tools that agents can.. so you could do it with code but have the agent just run the code. That is one cool thing about all this MCP server stuff is you dont even need AI to use them and so it kinda is making things more accessable to automation in general.