My $0 local coding agent does more than $20 Claude Code because it never says no

A developer shares why they replaced their $20 Claude Code subscription with a free local coding agent built on Ollama, Qwen2.5-Coder 7B, and OpenCode. The main driver was Claude Code's usage limits causing prompt rationing and interrupting iterative workflows. The local setup is slower and less capable but removes all restrictions, enabling continuous iteration. OpenCode acts as the agent layer, supporting multi-agent workflows, MCP servers, and custom tool permissions. The author uses the local model for repetitive tasks and falls back to Claude only for harder problems.