Stop using serverless if you don’t know what the fuck you’re doing

Every fucking week, I see geniuses on reddit and tiktok wake up to $10 000 bills because they accidentally triggered billion Lambda functions in a project with four users (three of them Google bot). Or they shared it on discord, someone got offended because they thought you were trying to steal their discord kitten with your "vibecoding skills," bought a DDOS, and launched the egress fees into the stratosphere.

Unless your cloud provider enforces a hard spending cap (most don’t) or a free tier with strict limits just rent a fucking VPS. A $5 VPS can handle hundreds to thousands of concurrent users if your app is just basic CRUD and it can't ever cost more than $5. Ask your agent to set it up if you can't do it yourself.

Serverless is for when you need your site to survive a $10M Super Bowl ad without crapping itself.

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u/vapalera — 6 days ago
▲ 515 r/worldnews

A mathematician has cracked an 87-year-old conundrum with the help of AI and announced the solution unceremoniously in a tweet. The finding is the most difficult mathematical problem yet solved by AI, say experts.

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u/vapalera — 1 month ago
▲ 121 r/aiwars

Redditor doesn't know anything about math, but is confident the math is wrong

u/vapalera — 1 month ago
▲ 150 r/europrivacy+5 crossposts

Everiot: a simple social media. No mandatory registration, no AI algorithms, and no NSFW content. Let me know what you think.

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u/vapalera — 26 days ago

You were spot on. Gemini is a frontend beast.

I’ve been dealing with annoying browser-painting and rendering glitches, flickering elements, CSS clashes, strange GPU compositing artifacts and inconsistencies between browsers. Codex couldn’t fix them even after multiple attempts with GPT-5.5 XHigh, but Gemini 3.1 resolved the issues in one pass. Gemini’s understanding of browsers and the front end is godlike.

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u/vapalera — 3 months ago
▲ 15 r/codex

How do you even run out of quota on a Pro 5x let alone 20x? What the hell are you working on?

I don’t have a job, so I’ve been chained to vs code and codex for 12 hours straight most days and still can’t exhaust my quota. The only time I reached the 5‑hour cap I had to spin up parallel agents at 5.5 on HIGH/fast and it drained me mentally just trying to keep track of what every agent was doing. And I only got the the $100 Pro 5x.

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u/vapalera — 3 months ago

Ive spent way too much money on AI subscriptions this year and here is the current top 5.

Plan Price Why
OpenAI Codex Pro 5x $100/mo Crazy limits (currently boosted until end of may) and separate quota for Codex-5-3 Spark. Absolutely 10000% the best plan right now, other plans dont come close. Unless you run parallel agents hitting the limit will be hard.
MiniMax Starter $9/mo Not the smartest, but the usage is crazy. Around 1500 requests per 5 hours, solid tool calling, fast, and works with pretty much everything. Good workhorse if you get a plan from another model
Gemini Pro $19.99/mo Not quite GPT-level, but the quotas carry it. 3.0 Flash in antigravity has no weekly cap (just a 5h window), plus separate limits for CLI/Code Assist. Gets the job done and you get some Claude access.
Opencode GO $10/mo You can burn through the quota fast if you code a lot, but it gives access to GLM 5.1, MiniMax, Kimi, and other open models. Great for trying different ecosystems. GLM 5.1 is almost Claude/GPT level in reasoning, people say that it (GLM 5.1) starts going crazy after 100k context but I've had good results at even 150k.
Claude Pro Max 20x $200/mo tossing claude an honorable mention since it used to be great value, less so now. Buy it if you are rich, but even then limits are lower than with a $100 Codex sub.

Codex is a beast right now so I can't recommend it enough, I use 5.3-Codex with high reasoning and it one shots almost everything I throw at it, imo GPT models are better at reasoning than Claude. I also vibecoded a website for comparing the features, prices etc of many of different plans: https://vibecarats.com/ . The site's crawler is powered by minimax M2.7.

As for free use, Gemini CLI/Code Assist offers a free plan, and NVIDIA NIM and Ollama provide free cloud-hosted open-source models.

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u/vapalera — 4 months ago