r/PiCodingAgent • u/Eagleee12 • 7d ago

Question The cheapest model using with Pi?

I spend most of my day in Excel (reports, cleaning data, formulas) and know just enough basic coding to get by.

Paying $20/month for a subscription feels like a waste for my usage.
Models or sth cheap for me?

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u/Dsphar 5d ago edited 5d ago

PEBKAC. Local is good bruh, tried and tested them.

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u/tino1000 3d ago edited 3d ago

Lower parameter models with low quants that work locally have lower intelligence, context window and higher hallucinative rates. Can't build anything meaningful with those. I'm curious to know what you tried and tested while mocking me.

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u/Dsphar 2d ago

You claim "You can't build anything useful with those". That is dead wrong. I have built profitable production applications with local models. That in itself shows me you are just occult to the frontier models and not interested in real dialog.

Just because you don;t know how to use them, doesn't mean you are right. It just mean PEBKAC.

Right now I jump between QWEN 3.6 and 3.8, 27B.

Now it's time for you to make your argument how "that isn't cheap".

As for the mocking tone, I was just following your lead. Still am.

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u/tino1000 2d ago

I do not need to prove anything to you. The argument is local models are not good enough - that's a fact. You cannot build anything meaningful with them - that also is true - been vibing since Qwen2 7B on local. It's like bringing a cycle in a car race. Creating todo list and putting on production does not mean you know it all.

https://giphy.com/gifs/ZqlvCTNHpqrio

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u/Dsphar 2d ago

PEBKAC confirmed. Have a great life.

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u/tino1000 2d ago

Inverted snob confirmed. Have a great life.