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Is it just me, or does it feel like AI coding is getting more expensive instead of cheaper?

I’ve recently started hitting Cursor’s $20 limit much faster, and once that’s reached, it becomes almost unusable. Even the smallest suggestions are trashy.

As for alternatives, I haven’t found anything that matches the chat experience for larger edits + good direct AI-powered autocompletes.

Testing Kiro now, but autocompletes mostly don’t work at all.

Maybe I just need to get used to using Claude in the terminal for bigger tasks and save Cursor for direct edits only 🤔

Building an AI x SocialFi app @reachbot /getreach | Open-source human-readable EVM data https://github.com/3loop/loop-decoder

I’ve come around to anti-vibe-coding.

I have more success when I spend a lot of time upfront planning, and then providing all of my planning docs, diagrams, designs, etc to Claude, and then asking it to implement it one step at a time.

Cuts down on tokens and forces me to think through what I actually need.