Comment by threePointFive
6 days ago
Can someone comment on the cost of running agentic models? Not for a company but for an individual. I tried "vibe coding" a personal project I was struggling with and left even more frustrated because I kept running into token rate limits with Claude (used inside of Zed if it matters). Did I pick the wrong model, the wrong editor, or do I just need to not be so tight with my money?
I tried Zed's agent support with Copilot. I was able to get it to implement a working feature with tests, but the code quality was poor and it took longer to do it than if I had written it myself.
I am wondering if maybe the average programmer is way slower and worse than I thought.
I haven't used zed specifically, but were you using your own API key for Claude? If so, you were probably running into the Anthropic API rate limits [1]. You can either a) deposit more funds to move your way up the tier list, or instead access Claude via something like OpenRouter, which will give you much higher limits.
[1] https://docs.anthropic.com/en/api/rate-limits
Try Cursor.ai or Windsail. They have free trials for the good models, and are pretty cheap to use if you decide you like them.
It’s not you. The emperor does not have any clothes
While i think i know what you're getting at, for the sake of discussion, could you elaborate?
Someone running out of tokens is not relevant to the article or its argument.
I had good luck with Zed w/Claude. Did you try max mode?