I did it! I'm free! It's been 7 hours since I used claudecode

My Pro subscription expired today, they killed my access at 1pm local time. I'm now using Qwen3.8-27b w/ 5090m 24gb vram and pi to do everything i was doing in claudecode. The only downside is claudecode let me code without using my gpu, meaning I have to plan things now. Last night I had ChatGPT write up a prompt for a fancy aurora predictor for Canadians. I fed it to local pi and claude sonnet 5. They took about the same time, pi's app looked better, but claude's had better science. I asked them each to compare the two apps and they both agreed Claude had the better app. I then had pi upgrade it's version with the better science. I'll post again if I have to cave in and re-subscribe to work on one of my production apps, but so far so good! submitted by /u/SOC_FreeDiver [link] [comments]

Source: r/LocalLLaMA | 2026-08-21