product · May 20, 2026
Reddit User Switches from Copilot to Local AI Tools Including Aider Due to Pricing
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A Reddit user in r/GithubCopilot described switching from Copilot to local AI after new pricing changes around May 18, 2026. The user tested Aider plus Ollama with qwen2.5-coder:14b and heavier options on an SDK update task using a new openapi.json file but encountered context size problems, timeout errors and inconsistent file updates. The post details that Aider may still be good yet failed to deliver a smooth workflow for the full task that ultimately took around 5 hours with OpenCode and qwen3-coder instead. The user concludes local AI reduces Copilot usage significantly when context and prompts are managed carefully on a macbook M1 Max with 64 GB RAM.
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