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> I use Grok and it's free (even Grok3). I definitely don't hit limits unless it's a pretty heavy day and I do a lot of adjustments

Okay maybe need to clarify: I hit those limits when I do agentic stuff, which is what Claude Code does: So let the LLM automatically pull in files into the context it thinks it needs, analyze my codebase, follow imports, add more code, etc. It can quickly balloon out of control when the LLM pulls in too many LoC and the context window gets too big.

Then do a few back and forth actions like "let's refine this plan, instead of X pls do Y", or "hmm I think maybe we should also look into file blah.ts" and you quickly hit 500k tokens.

If I use Cody only, which has some agentic capabilities but is much more "how can I implement Y in this file @src/file1.ts db models are in @src/models/foo.ts", then I rarely ever hit any rate limitations. That's more similar to what you describe of copying code back and forth, except it's in the editor and you can do it by writing @somefile.




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