Yea I just use LLM agents as tools, I don’t kick whole features to them or have a cloud agent running all the time. I rarely use more than $100 in usage monthly, usually less than half that. I use tab completion a lot in Cursor and use agents to make mechanical changes or integrate features I don’t care about learning, like integrating several libraries together into my application. I also use it to write things I’ve already got examples for, like database APIs.

Software engineers who haven’t tried these tools don’t understand what they are, and vibe coders who never understood software are taking the mindshare in public because it sounds revolutionary to some and apocalyptic to others. You have to stop listening to the claw bros and try using these as tools yourself in small ways to see what it’s really about, IMO.