On Mar 08, 2026 04:44pm, DIGITAL MAN wrote to :

If you tell claude about this data file and library, it'll

likely be

able to use it with very little change to your module. --
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Just curious, but are all bbs software developers using Claude AI
now??

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Re: RE: javascript ai last ca
By: Robert Wolfe to DIGITAL MAN on Thu Apr 30 2026 01:42 pm

On Mar 08, 2026 04:44pm, DIGITAL MAN wrote to :

If you tell claude about this data file and library, it'll

likely be

able to use it with very little change to your module. --

Just curious, but are all bbs software developers using Claude AI
now??

I have no idea (I don't have the pulse of or speak for all bbs software devs), but Claude Code does seem to be generally taking a strong hold among programmers these days.
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Re: RE: javascript ai last ca
By: Digital Man to Robert Wolfe on Thu Apr 30 2026 11:17 am

I have no idea (I don't have the pulse of or speak for all bbs software devs), but Claude Code does seem to be generally taking a strong hold among programmers these days.

I think Claude is good, though I've also used Cursor and I think Cursor is pretty good too. Cursor is also less expensive (it lets you use it more for their $20/month tier). I haven't done a thorough comparison between code quality between Cursor & Claude though; maybe Claude is able to produce higher-quality code.

With Claude, I run into their rate limiting very fast on their $20/month tier. I think their $100/month tier would be better for me, but that's a significant difference in price, and in some cases, with that money, I might be able to find some existing software rather than use Claude to make one.

Nightfox

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Re: RE: javascript ai last ca
By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Thu Apr 30 2026 12:57 pm

With Claude, I run into their rate limiting very fast on their $20/month tier. I think their $100/month tier would be better for me, but that's a significant difference in price, and in some cases, with that money, I might be able to find some existing software rather than use Claude to make one.

I upgraded from $20 to $100/month Claude Code subscription pretty quick (after adding some "extra time" and calculating that the $100/month would actually save me money). I've also heard good things about OpenAI's Codex and watching a demo, it seemed very similar to Claude Code in function and capability, but cheaper than Claude.

All of these AI code services are likely currently way *under* charging based on their cost to operate. They're going to continue to get better, no doubt, but I think they're also going to get more expensive at some point.
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Re: RE: javascript ai last ca
By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Thu Apr 30 2026 12:57 pm

I think their $100/month tier would be better for me, but that's a significa difference in price, and in some cases, with that money, I might be able to

You were saying in some other post that you have a good GPU. How much VRAM do you have?

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Re: RE: javascript ai last ca
By: Digital Man to MRO on Fri May 01 2026 11:40 pm

So Claude Code directly creates and modifies source files, but you run it fr a command prompt and it requires a subscription (I think).

Unless you run it with a local model. Then you don't have to log in.

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Re: RE: javascript ai last ca
By: phigan to Nightfox on Mon May 04 2026 10:36 am

I think their $100/month tier would be better for me, but that's a
significa difference in price, and in some cases, with that money, I might
be able to

You were saying in some other post that you have a good GPU. How much VRAM do you have?

It has 12GB. I've considered setting up a local AI to run on it; I wonder how well that would work compared to Claude and other AIs.

Nightfox

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Re: RE: javascript ai last ca
By: Nightfox to phigan on Mon May 04 2026 12:49 pm

It has 12GB. I've considered setting up a local AI to run on it; I wonder h well that would work compared to Claude and other AIs.

I've been using models twice the size as what you'd want, so I'm not sure what kind of results you'd have.. but I'd try phi4-reasoning maybe. If you install the command-line Claude Code, you load it with that model and supposedly it makes it a little better.

Supposedly just using llama.cpp (vs through something like Ollama or StudioLM or whatever) gets you the best performance.

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