I'm stepping away from LLMs in general and did cancel Claude code subscription this month because I respect myself very much and I deserve a better and transparent treatment.
If you must - in my experience Deepseek v4 is incredible value in every aspect. Pricing is transparent.
But like I said, I have funds in different AI gateways but I'm preferring to write by hand because I don't want surprising bugs and unnecessary code in my end result.
Admittedly havent used deepseek v4, but v3 was so overhyped and bad that I'm reluctant to wasting my time on it.
Maybe you will inspire me to use it.
You can use an LLM, review the code and therefore avoid surprising bugs and unnecessary code in your end result.
So close to doing the same
installing a local model gives you time to work on the important code and let the ai do the drudgery
I did this and I use small local models as a productivity booster. It's been refreshing