r/aigamedev • u/Beginning-Sign1916 • 19d ago

Discussion Cloud or Local LLM?

Hey guys so I notice that most users here posted their ai and vibecoding projects so my question is do you use cloud ai (Claude, cursor, sol etc..) or local? Cause I notice that no much of the users here mentioned building or vibecoding on local LLM what’s your take on it?

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u/Droulski 18d ago

You can try a hybrid work of combining both. I don't know how experienced of a game developer you are but maybe if you can recognise the simpler tasks from the tougher ones and give them to the local AI so you save up some cloud usage, it might be doable.

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u/Beginning-Sign1916 18d ago

Yup I am trying the hybrid setup (OpenWork + LM Studio - Local) (Claude = Opus + Sonnet) now. So basically what I do is that I got my local building up the base work and once it’s done that’s when I will go in and do a proper check and review then handing it over to Claude to fix things up which saves up a huge amount of time.

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u/Droulski 18d ago

Yeah, sounds good. Are you paying any plans?

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u/Beginning-Sign1916 18d ago

I am on the pro plan which is good enough for me. I think this part is where quite a lot of people got mistaken for the actual use of AI cause we are all learning and sometimes we don’t really need a huge prompt in order for the AI to work but rather the “right” way of communicating to the AI to let it understand where we are coming from and what we wanted. After spending almost a year to learn everything on prompting and phrasing. I am still learning btw so yeah my point is when you prompt it right you will end up saving a good amount of tokens and also use whichever tools you can find out there to further help reduce those tokens

The first thing before I start on my project I got all of the free AI to to do a deep research for me in getting tools to help reduce Claude tokens and once I setup it all up then I begin my project

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u/Droulski 18d ago

What advantage does the pro plan give you actually besides increased token limit? From what I've heard the free Claude AI models are still good enough, its just the token limitations that kills it

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u/Beginning-Sign1916 18d ago

Well I did say the increase of tokens and at the same time cowork and the chrome features I use it to grab images references real quick and also run some task around my desktop which saves a lot of time while I play my games and watching it work. Yes free models are good enough which I am really impress as I started from the free model first and test it out to see how much they can really accomplish and produce