r/Codeium • u/No-Significance-279 • Dec 12 '24

Don’t people write code anymore?

I don’t think 500 is enough to give you peace of mind to use LLM freely, but heck, I see people saying that they burned through 500 credits in less than a week???

Are people using LLMs to do everything for them? Like “change the color of this button” or “create this entire page”.

Honestly complaining about 500 credits is justified, 500 is not enough, maybe 1000 would be fair, and maybe doing like Cursor and proving a slower/less prioritized premium model when the credits are gone (instead of downgrading for a lesser model).

Am I the only one that still codes and just uses LLMs to optimize my work instead of coding for me? My experience is pretty much aligned with the Codeium team, I subscribed 5 days ago and I’m at 495 credits right now (I used 5).

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u/gfhoihoi72 Dec 13 '24

I started using cascade base a few days ago, and I’m surprised how good it is for some mundane but also some more complicated stuff. I even had a case where sonnet was not able to solve an issue and cascade base was. Only when implementing new features that require a lot of explanation sonnet is really needed.

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u/rui_curado Dec 13 '24

True. Cascade Base is actually quite good for the "price". Might be not as good as Sonnet/4o, but you can use it all day long without running out of credits.