Just wanted to share that this actually does work with Claude Code, and I can use Github Copilot's Opus models in CC without burning up all of the premium requests.. they figured out how to fix that. Copilot is a great deal for how much you get for $10
Right now Google Antigravity has free Claude Opus 4.5, with pretty decent allowances.
I also use Github Copilot which is just $10/mo. I have to use the official copilot though, if I try to 'hack it' to work in Claude Code it burns thru all the credits too fast.
I am having a LOT of great luck using Minimax M2 in Claude Code, its very cheap, and it works so good.. its close to Sonnet in Claude Code. I use this tool called cc-switch to swap out different models for Claude Code.
Lately, I’ve been using Claude Code skills/plugins.
One is called Superpowers (you should be able to find it by typing “claude code superpowers github”), and there are many other skills installed for all sorts of things. Gotta give props to whoever came up with the skills idea at Anthropic. It’s a smart way of handling context — instead of dumping pages of helper text into the prompt (for example, how to properly build a frontend website), it just provides some metadata and lets the agent decide whether it needs to load more.
I highly recommend spending time finding and installing lots of these skill plugins. They can make even the cheapest small AI models work way better.
I’ve been using the Superpowers plan mode: it creates a detailed plan first, then there’s an execute mode (and a few others I’m forgetting). I can give it a long, hard task — like converting a large app to another language - and if I run plan first and then execute, I can just let it run for hours and come back to something that’s basically done: fully tested, following best practices, with most bugs fixed.
There are some skills for frontend development, and now anytime I make a website, its crazy amazing looking and has all the stuff I usually forget.
I made this for my sister who has been curious about AI and coding (she is not a programmer). Its because I didn't want to sit and download each program individually, install each extension, Git, Node, ... also random people at work, lots of people get curious after me telling them how much fun it is.
I could not find any similar thing out there..
Includes at least two totally free and excellent free tier's of AI coding tools/APIs that can be used in the installed VS Code (auto-installs a couple AI coding extensions). Includes links to some other information I wrote about how to keep costs low or zero.. specifically for AI to help code (something that was trending on HN last month).
Its useful for when you are having random conversations about the topic and people are curious and want to maybe experiment... but have no idea how to start or what to do. Some people will loose interest when there are tons of steps or friction.
I could improve this a lot if anyone actually ends up using it besides myself, better docs and maybe a guide or example(s) step by step how to make/code something cool (or, links to some guides, videos, blogs/sites - I enjoy getting people into cool stuff like programming! If you can show someone how much cool things they can do before the brain boredom hits, they'll get some dopamine and maybe come back to it.
Interested in any feedback negative or positive, i'm probably missing a few things that should be included... I don't want to ever add anything spammy/scammy, things that you spend time to learn then they manipulate you into paying, no evil things etc.. no "gotchas" marketing "trickery" If I were to remake it i'd do it different: web/JS version where the checkboxes are online, and it creates a more custom script. More options and operating systems but with 2 or 3 good simple defaults to pick from.
The free AI models are Qwen3 Coder, Gemini 2.5 (probably 3 soon) Pro.. and there are usually one or two more that are built into the VS Code extensions Cline, Kilo Code. GLM 4.6 is $9 for 3 months. Github Copilot is an excellent value for all the Claude 4.5 credits they give you for $10 (maybe its temporary but I can go with the agent for hours, barely using 2%!)
--- Some people hate the phrase "vibe coding" but my own mother asked me if I had heard of it. Its out there in the consciousness and scammers are also out there in the same spaces, waiting in the bushes.. ready to pounce on people who don't know there are simpler, cheaper ways to access & use AI
I think it is my favorite model out of all of them. Its the one I tend to go to for just about everything now. I just found something called Octofriend that is supposedly really good set to GLM 4.5.
I have used it, but I just haven't found it good when I have, maybe its gotten better.
I have it as one of the free models in a chrome extension I was working on since I keep a list of tons of free APIs, just there are so many options and I tend to just use the top 5-10 best ones (that I have noticed as being great)
What are you using GPT 4.1 with, anything? I find that it will follow your instructions REALLY well, so maybe whatever you are using it in, there is a problem with the prompt. Something might be telling it to do that. It really does do whatever you tell it (but you might not be able to see the full prompt if you are using GPT 4.1 with some kind of other tool/not raw).
Using it in Cline (free VS Code extension) it does exactly what it is told to do, I will have a bigger/smarter model figure out plans for it. It will edit files and just do stuff but its not really the model to think or plan etc.
Honestly there just isn't any alternative - the quality I get from this method is just better.. and often times, less than that level of quality just sucks too much and in the long run takes up more time.
But I am trying some of the new CLI agent tools lately and some of them seem pretty good so far... It will take me time to really compare it though.
nice try, bot. I just don't like Amazon anything. I am onto their long term game.
They will give you free stuff, wait til its burned into your mind, then slowly raise the price or add annoying marketing trickery bs. Or lawyer-designed bs to trap you. I just don't want to live in that world.
