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Tinker Tuesday for June 16th, 2026

This thread is for anyone working on personal projects to share their progress, and hold themselves somewhat accountable to a group of peers.

Post your project, your progress from last week, and what you hope to accomplish this week.

If you want to be pinged with a reminder asking about your project, let me know, and I'll harass you each week until you cancel the service.

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What's the best AI coding plan right now?

From what I can tell:

  • GLM gets you about 400M GLM 5.2 tokens / month on the Lite plan ($15 / month). 5.2 is a great model, no performance issues I've seen so far, but at max effort using the ZCode harness it guzzles tokens like crazy. My experience with their plan is still quite limited.
  • Opencode Go ($10 / month) has very transparent pricing equating to about 60M tokens using GLM 5.1, or a bit more (~100M) using slightly dumber models like Kimi 2.7. It also seems to use tokens more efficiently than any other harness I've tried.
  • Claude code's limits are harder to define objectively but it seems comparatively tiny, like 5M tokens / month for Opus. Of course smarter models use these tokens both better and more efficiently.

As far as models, GLM 5.1 is the dumbest reliable model, meaning it won't often make obvious mistakes given simple tasks. I don't think it's really worth the time to use anything dumber unless your task is very well-defined and limited in scope, in which case a free model will do just fine. Gemini has been the biggest disappointment. 3.5 flash is ok, 3.1 pro is bad and expensive, 3 flash is unusable. Opus is obviously best but doesn't have a huge lead.

I don't have much experience with chatGPT, from what I hear it currently has the best bang for your buck with 5.5xhigh. Would love to hear what you guys think as I can't afford every coding plan at once, and each harness has its own learning curve.

Developers seem to be split Claude and Codex (ChatGPT) right now. In my experience Codex seems to be a little better at thinking but a little worse at making sure it didn't hallucinate the function. Claude is a little better at doing what other developers are doing. That can be a problem with things like React where it has been trained on a lot of bad code.

The developer split seems kind of ideological right now since people have strong opinions on Anthropic vs OpenAI.

Gauntlet.ai has a free "night school" with videos of talks that will help you stay up to date.

https://apply.gauntletai.com/night-school

They push you to apply but just ignore it if you don't want to.

They turned me down because I don't have enough programming experience haha. Oh well. Their "classes" or whatever you want to call them are great.

What's your budget?

Right now I'm just asking. I got hooked up with a GLM legacy plan and in theory have ~40 billion tokens/month of GLM 5.2, which I'm scrambling to use.

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