A Guide to Local Coding Models

Re:A Guide to Local Coding Models by kasey_junk on Monday December 22, 2025 @08:43AM (#46354043)

The issue is that your claim was that if you are using up tokens you are probably vibe coding.

But I’ve not found that to be true at all. My actually engineered processes where I care the most is where I push tokens the hardest. Mostly because I’m using llms in many places in the sdlc.

When I’m vibing it’s just a single agent sort of puttering along. It uses much fewer tokens.

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Re:A Guide to Local Coding Models by satvikpendem on Monday December 22, 2025 @04:23PM (#46359266)

> The issue is that your claim was that if you are using up tokens you are probably vibe coding.

I said "by and large" ie generally speaking. As I mentioned before, the exception does not invalidate the trend. I assume HN is more heavily weighted towards non-vibe-coders using up tokens like me and you but again, that's the exception to what I see online elsewhere.

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