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owebmasteryesterday at 8:37 PM1 replyview on HN

This calc is off. Using Claude for a few hours with the $20 plan will hit the limit for a week while the local model can process things 24/7.


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skeledrewyesterday at 8:54 PM

Running 24/7 doesn't make sense though, unless you're providing a service to others. But if it's just you then there has to be time taken to review+test what's being done and craft new prompts. And if that local hardware isn't decent enough it's impractical for anything serious that's interactive. Meanwhile I just take the Claude limits on stride and break, or if a week is pretty heavy then I augment with DeepSeek Flash via OpenRouter (does wonders in a single turn when I have Claude prompt it to handle implementation slices).

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