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hi everyone. my free trial of chatgpt plus is ending soon. i’ve been using codex + gpt-5.5 mostly for vibe coding, and i really liked it (its my first time using agents to help with code actually)

i can pay for a monthly subscription, but not something like $100/month. my realistic budget is around $20, maybe $30 max

the main issue is limits. with gpt-5.5 medium i get around \\\\\\\~10 prompts per 5-hour limit when working on my project. my weekly usage sometimes drops close to 0% in about 3 days if i code a lot. if i code less, it can last almost the full week

is there anything close to gpt-5.5 for coding, but with more tokens or better limits?

i also looked at claude, but people often say it is expensive and burns through limits fast. is that true? would something like sonnet 4.6 / sonnet 5 on medium last even less than chatgpt plus? who have used/compares them both, what can you say about claude

i also tried opencode go for $5 with glm-5.2, but it was pretty bad for me. with around 250k context it somehow used about $9 very quickly. i don’t understand how it burned through credits that fast. they also have minimax m3, deepseek v4 pro and some other models, but i don’t know if any of them are actually good enough for coding (mostly typescript coding)

what would you choose for vibe coding under $20-30/month?

i really care about

1. code quality close to gpt-5.5(medium, i love when it one shots with code) or about that
2. enough usage time to actually work for a while
3. good handling of a larger project context
4. no surprise credit burn from huge context

should i just stay with chatgpt plus + codex, or is there a better option right now for price / limits / code quality?

hi everyone. my free trial of chatgpt plus is ending soon. i’ve been using codex + gpt-5.5 mostly for vibe coding, and i really liked it (its my first time using agents to help with code actually)

i can pay for a monthly subscription, but not something like $100/month. my realistic budget is around $20, maybe $30 max

the main issue is limits. with gpt-5.5 medium i get around \~10 prompts per 5-hour limit when working on my project. my weekly usage sometimes drops close to 0% in about 3 days if i code a lot. if i code less, it can last almost the full week

is there anything close to gpt-5.5 for coding, but with more tokens or better limits?

i also looked at claude, but people often say it is expensive and burns through limits fast. is that true? would something like sonnet 4.6 / sonnet 5 on medium last even less than chatgpt plus? who have used/compares them both, what can you say about claude

i also tried opencode go for $5 with glm-5.2, but it was pretty bad for me. with around 250k context it somehow used about $9 very quickly. i don’t understand how it burned through credits that fast. they also have minimax m3, deepseek v4 pro and some other models, but i don’t know if any of them are actually good enough for coding (mostly typescript coding)

what would you choose for vibe coding under $20-30/month?

i really care about

1. code quality close to gpt-5.5(medium, i love when it one shots with code) or about that
2. enough usage time to actually work for a while
3. good handling of a larger project context
4. no surprise credit burn from huge context

should i just stay with chatgpt plus + codex, or is there a better option right now for price / limits / code quality?

hi everyone. my free trial of chatgpt plus is ending soon. i’ve been using codex + gpt-5.5 mostly for vibe coding, and i really liked it (its my first time using agents to help with code actually)

i can pay for a monthly subscription, but not something like $100/month. my realistic budget is around $20, maybe $30 max

the main issue is limits. with gpt-5.5 medium i get around ~10 prompts per 5-hour limit when working on my project. my weekly usage sometimes drops close to 0% in about 3 days if i code a lot. if i code less, it can last almost the full week

is there anything close to gpt-5.5 for coding, but with more tokens or better limits?

i also looked at claude, but people often say it is expensive and burns through limits fast. is that true? would something like sonnet 4.6 / sonnet 5 on medium last even less than chatgpt plus? who have used/compares them both, what can you say about claude

i also tried opencode go for $5 with glm-5.2, but it was pretty bad for me. with around 250k context it somehow used about $9 very quickly. i don’t understand how it burned through credits that fast. they also have minimax m3, deepseek v4 pro and some other models, but i don’t know if any of them are actually good enough for coding (mostly typescript coding)

what would you choose for vibe coding under $20-30/month?

i really care about

1. code quality close to gpt-5.5(medium, i love when it one shots with code) or about that
2. enough usage time to actually work for a while
3. good handling of a larger project context
4. no surprise credit burn from huge context

should i just stay with chatgpt plus + codex, or is there a better option right now for price / limits / code quality?

i’m making a 2d game in ts + phaser 4. the game base resolution is 1280x720 and i use bitmap text for the ui

the weird part is that the font looks good at 720p, 1440p and 4k. at 720p it is 1x, at 1440p it is 2x, at 4k it should be 3x. but on 1080p it looks different and worse, like some glyphs are uneven or broken

i think the reason is that 1280x720 to 1920x1080 is 1.5x, so the bitmap font gets scaled by a non-integer value. i tried forcing integer scaling, and the text gets cleaner, but then the game runs at 1x on 1080p and there are black borders around the game. i do not want 1080p players to play with black borders

what is the normal way to handle this in a phaser 2d game?

should i keep 1280x720 and accept 1.5x scaling on 1080p? should i stop using bitmap text for small ui text and use normal text instead? or is there another setup people usually use for pixel art games with readable ui?

i’m making a 2d game in ts + phaser 4. the game base resolution is 1280x720 and i use bitmap text for the ui

the weird part is that the font looks good at 720p, 1440p and 4k. at 720p it is 1x, at 1440p it is 2x, at 4k it should be 3x. but on 1080p it looks different and worse, like some glyphs are uneven or broken

i think the reason is that 1280x720 to 1920x1080 is 1.5x, so the bitmap font gets scaled by a non-integer value. i tried forcing integer scaling, and the text gets cleaner, but then the game runs at 1x on 1080p and there are black borders around the game. i do not want 1080p players to play with black borders

what is the normal way to handle this in a phaser 2d game?

should i keep 1280x720 and accept 1.5x scaling on 1080p? should i stop using bitmap text for small ui text and use normal text instead? or is there another setup people usually use for pixel art games with readable ui?

Rn im running Ollama + Aider on Linux (rx9070xt 16GB, 32GB ram). This is strictly for vibe coding, nothing enterprise
im trying to decide between IQ3\_M and IQ4\_NL for “Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B MoE”

IQ3\_M fits entirely in my 16GB vram. IQ4\_NL (maybe around \~20GB) may spill 3-4GB into system RAM

How much logic/syntax precision do I actually lose in Q3 vs Q4 for coding? Does q4 make a real difference in avoiding broken syntax/agent loops etc, or is the speed of keeping Q3 fully in VRAM worth it?

Or would it make more sense to just drop the MoE entirely and run Qwen 3.6 27B Dense instead(?)

Rn im running Ollama + Aider on Linux (rx9070xt 16GB, 32GB ram). This is strictly for vibe coding, nothing enterprise
im trying to decide between IQ3_M and IQ4_NL for “Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B MoE”

IQ3_M fits entirely in my 16GB vram. IQ4_NL (maybe around ~20GB) may spill 3-4GB into system RAM

How much logic/syntax precision do I actually lose in Q3 vs Q4 for coding? Does q4 make a real difference in avoiding broken syntax/agent loops etc, or is the speed of keeping Q3 fully in VRAM worth it?

Or would it make more sense to just drop the MoE entirely and run Qwen 3.6 27B Dense instead(?)

Looking for a used fixie/singlespeed under 300€, been searching for weeks. Found one for 300€ that’s a State Bicycle Co. 4130 (chromoly steel frame, 55cm) but heavily upgraded by the previous owner.

im a broke student, this is genuinely the best thing ive found after weeks of searching used listings. Not really in a position to go higher than 300€, so this feels like a rare find

Problem is I’m 5’7” (170cm), ~29.5” inseam and State officially lists 55cm as 5’9”–6’0”. One size too big on paper. (but i can be wrong, maybe)

Im not worried about standover… i always dismount by sliding sideways off the saddle, never stand over the top tube. The only thing I’m actually concerned about is whether the reach to the handlebars will be uncomfortable for daily city riding, especially since it has drop bars which already put you more stretched out

Is this manageable at my height, or will I genuinely feel like I’m reaching too far? i’m also thinking about getting a 35mm or 40mm stem, which might actually fix all these issues. what do you think?

Looking for a used fixie/singlespeed under 300€, been searching for weeks. Found one for 300€ that’s a State Bicycle Co. 4130 (chromoly steel frame, 55cm) but heavily upgraded by the previous owner.

im a broke student, this is genuinely the best thing ive found after weeks of searching used listings. Not really in a position to go higher than 300€, so this feels like a rare find

Problem is I’m 5’7” (170cm), ~29.5” inseam and State officially lists 55cm as 5’9”–6’0”. One size too big on paper. (but i can be wrong, maybe)

Im not worried about standover… i always dismount by sliding sideways off the saddle, never stand over the top tube. The only thing I’m actually concerned about is whether the reach to the handlebars will be uncomfortable for daily city riding, especially since it has drop bars which already put you more stretched out

Is this manageable at my height, or will I genuinely feel like I’m reaching too far? i’m also thinking about getting a 35mm or 40mm stem, which might actually fix all these issues. what do you think?

about a week ago i made a post asking which arpg should be my first ever. got a lot of recommendations, but in the end i went with poe2

and man… this game is way too good.

yeah, i only got like 25 hours so far. spent basically all that time doing the first 4 acts, learning systems and figuring stuff out, which probably sounds slow for experienced players :D and yeah, i still haven’t touched endgame yet.

but even just these first acts were an insanely good experience. buildcrafting already feels awesome and honestly the game is less overwhelming than i expected. only got lost a couple times during the acts

right now i’m just waiting for may 28. i know endgame is getting heavily reworked in 0.5, so i kinda dont wanna spoil it for myself. just wanna start fresh with all the new stuff and experience it properly from zero.

playing bleed huntress atm. went ritualist ascendancy, but from what i’ve heard amazon is stronger for bleed. probably gonna reroll that next time. build itself is from the internet tho, no way im making my own build yet :D although i already changed a few talents around myself after trying to understand what would work better

honestly the game is amazing. animations, skills, support gems, crafting, game optimization, all of it feels super polished. already saw some of the 0.5 nerfs too, but i was planning to go full evasion + deflection anyway

overall, game’s just peak :D

im trying to run local ai agents like Goose using lm studio but my models just randomly stop generating mid thought and gpu usage drops to 0%. im on windows 11 with an rx 9070 xt 16gb. tried gemma 4 e4b (7.5B) and qwen3.5 (9B) etc. tried both vulkan and rocm backends and even both stable and beta branches of lm studio.

i thought Goose was bugged but i dug into the main log in lm studio and found the culprit. even though i manually set the context length to 32768 in the side panel the log spits out this:

“[error] [LM Studio] Not using full context length for VRAM overflow calculations due to single GPU setup. Instead, using '8192' as context length for the calculation. Original context length: '32768'.”

and then right after the generation crashes because the agent prompt is huge:
Error: The number of tokens to keep from the initial prompt is greater than the context length (n_keep: 5746 >= n_ctx: 4096).

ive got 16gb of vram. a 4b or 7b or any other model at 32k context fits easily with a lot of room to spare. but lm studio apparently sees a single gpu setup freaks out and forces a tiny 8k context limit. since coding agents send a massive system prompt and code files it instantly hits this invisible ceiling and silently dies

is there any way to bypass this weird safeguard? or am i doing something wrong? how do i force lm studio to actually respect the slider instead of nerfing it down to 8192? am i missing some hidden config file setting?

i just want to write my plans, notes and stuff in Obsidian, like not even for coding, but my gpu just randomly stops generating the answer…

im trying to run local ai agents like Goose using lm studio but my models just randomly stop generating mid thought and gpu usage drops to 0%. im on windows 11 with an rx 9070 xt 16gb. tried gemma 4 e4b (7.5B) and qwen3.5 (9B) etc. tried both vulkan and rocm backends and even both stable and beta branches of lm studio.

i thought Goose was bugged but i dug into the main log in lm studio and found the culprit. even though i manually set the context length to 32768 in the side panel the log spits out this:

“[error] [LM Studio] Not using full context length for VRAM overflow calculations due to single GPU setup. Instead, using '8192' as context length for the calculation. Original context length: '32768'.”

and then right after the generation crashes because the agent prompt is huge:
Error: The number of tokens to keep from the initial prompt is greater than the context length (n_keep: 5746 >= n_ctx: 4096).

ive got 16gb of vram. a 4b or 7b or any other model at 32k context fits easily with a lot of room to spare. but lm studio apparently sees a single gpu setup freaks out and forces a tiny 8k context limit. since coding agents send a massive system prompt and code files it instantly hits this invisible ceiling and silently dies

is there any way to bypass this weird safeguard? or am i doing something wrong? how do i force lm studio to actually respect the slider instead of nerfing it down to 8192? am i missing some hidden config file setting?

i just want to write my plans, notes and stuff in Obsidian, like not even for coding, but my gpu just randomly stops generating the answer…

Hey everyone!! Been saving up for a couple of months and finally picked up a 9850x3d, it was only about 10€ more than the 9800x3d

Went straight into PBO and set -30mv. It passes all tests and ive had zero crashes or black screens in games for about 2 weeks now

Question is, is it worth trying to min-max further and push for -33 or -35, or is that usually not achievable / barely makes a difference / just not worth it?

im running it on an air cooler (dual fan tower with 7 heatpipes), not an AIO, so I guess that might matter too

Anyone with similar experience or who knows PBO well, what do you think?

Hey everyone!! Been saving up for a couple of months and finally picked up a 9850x3d, it was only about 10€ more than the 9800x3d

Went straight into PBO and set -30mv. It passes all tests and ive had zero crashes or black screens in games for about 2 weeks now

Question is, is it worth trying to min-max further and push for -33 or -35, or is that usually not achievable / barely makes a difference / just not worth it?

im running it on an air cooler (dual fan tower with 7 heatpipes), not an AIO, so I guess that might matter too

Anyone with similar experience or who knows PBO well, what do you think?

Hey everyone, I tried retail WoW and… yeah, not for me. The pace is way too fast, I kinda wanna go back to good old 3.3.5

im mostly looking for a server I can just hop on from time to time, have a good time and actually relax, nothing too sweaty.

Problem is, I’ve got no idea where to start. I know about Ascension (Bronzebeard), but it feels way too custom(?). Theres Frostmourne Wotlk+, but ive seen some mixed/negative opinions about it (not really sure why?). And then there’s ChromieCraft - but how’s the population there? Like ~1k in the evenings, is that enough for dungeons/raids? And how’s the community, is it chill or toxic?

Would really appreciate some opinions/recommendations!