Student seeks zero-budget advice for AI coding agents that read entire project folders
EquivalentFace6178 · reddit · 2026-08-17
A college student seeks advice on building a zero-budget agentic coding workflow. Currently facing context loss by manually uploading files to ChatGPT/Claude in the browser. Attempts to use free OpenRouter models for Claude CLI resulted in slowness and API errors, while local models are unfeasible due to 4GB VRAM constraints. Looking for reliable, lightweight free tools or free-tier API setups that can understand the codebase and edit files directly.
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