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Northernator11

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Northernator11··on Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup?
Codex $100- daily driver

Claude $20- gives me the supreme intelligence for when I need it.

Codebuddy pro about $10 Excellent for free and a variety of models and amazing value.

Grok bot had a deal on and I got it for like $30 for three months and is shit hot for applications for jobs, emails all kinds of cool shit.

I use free instinct bot too and I ran it against grok bot to find if it would find better deals and it did most of the time.

Northernator11··on Open models can do 90 percent of agentic work at a twentieth of the cost
Will have to try this review stratergy with GLM, Thanks for sharing
Northernator11··on Developers are downgrading their AI on purpose – and it's working
The newest deepseek 4.1 will be replacing puff reading and parsing for me now at a fraction of the cost of claude models I was using before
Northernator11··on Open models can do 90 percent of agentic work at a twentieth of the cost
New deep seek 4.1 has done the majority of coding tasks ive thrown at it no problem
Northernator11··on In LLM era, can software startup survive?
I think it comes down to a change in how companies promote and charge for the service.
Northernator11··on Ask HN: Do you read your coding agent's plans before approving?
I check it through because I cant read the code. Then test it. Then regression test it.
Northernator11··on Ask HN: Do you read your coding agent's plans before approving?
I check it, because I cant read the code. Then teat it worked or if it broke anything else.