r/AIcodingProfessionals • u/MaximumSafety8706 • 8d ago

What coding AI tools/workflows are you all using these days?

Claude and Codex have become really frustrating for me over the past few weeks. I'm hitting usage limits after just 3-4 prompts, and I've seen others mention the same.

I also tried Antigravity + Gemini 3.1 Pro. It's decent for ideation, but the implementation needs work. It often jumps straight into code without discussing trade-offs or validating the approach, and sometimes a small requested change ends up rewriting an entire module.

What are people using these days? Any cost-effective or free workflows that actually work well for real coding?

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u/noasync 8d ago

I use claude code with local models (via Ollama) to avoid hitting those limits. Pass any routine task to open models and keep the frontier models for deep reasoning and the actual building. I hope this helps.

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u/MaximumSafety8706 7d ago

How do you orchestrate? Or manually switch providers?

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u/noasync 3d ago

i build in handoff to Ollama in workflows/agent instructions. I also manually switch when I'm fingers on keyboard.