Your paid AI coding tools are overkill — here's what I switched to instead
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Whether you're using Claude Code or Codex, or use them through another harness like Pi, vibe coding, and agentic development are here to stay. The thing is, unless you're hosting your own local LLM models, the costs of that accelerated development cycle add up quickly. And sometimes, you just don't need the additional help. There's something to be said about a more traditional coding environment, where the AI is there to fix structure and expand function calls intelligently.
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