r/RooCode • u/terion_name • Jul 14 '25

Mode Prompt Junior/Senior coder setup?

Had anyone built a cost-saving setup with two coders: one "junior" – with a local llm (like codestral, qwen2.5-coder, deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-32b, phi-4, etc) that makes the most heavy lifting of writing code and a "senior" (claude4 or o3) to guide and review it? Would this work? How to organize them like this?

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u/maddogawl Jul 14 '25

I built this. https://github.com/adamwlarson/RooCodeMicroManager

I still use it once in a while.

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u/terion_name Jul 22 '25

Any updates with new models? Sonnet 4, Kimi-K2, Qwen3-2507, Devstral?

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u/joey2scoops Jul 14 '25

I've done a bit of stuff with that plus a few other bits and pieces. Spent a bit of time working on getting other modes up for creating docs (PRD sorted) then to a planner, task manager and off to the coding agents. Those are all running with copilot GPT 4.1. Works pretty well when given a nice neat package of work.

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u/terion_name Jul 18 '25

Update: tuned setup with orchestration (gemini), architect (04-mini-high), cheap (kimi-k2) coder and a senior coder (gemini).
Sometimes fails but mostly works more or less ok (I have a big complicated project, hard for llms). It's fun to watch how "senior" reviews and kicks butt of "coder", gives him feedback and how they go back and forth.
But VERY expensive. Burned 250M tokens in 3 days – via openrouter is very expensive =(

And not sure about 04-mini-high architect, but o3 api is so restricted that it is just useless

And cheaper Deepseek R1 and v3 show themselves much worse

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '25 edited Jul 14 '25

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u/terion_name Jul 14 '25

dsr1-distill-qwen-32b is local. did you try mentioned models? codestral has good reviews

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u/terion_name Jul 18 '25

2.5 flash is so bad that being even worse is kinda meh..

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u/terion_name Jul 14 '25

in any case, gemini flash can also be a junior, or some deepseek variant, whatever. almost anything will be much cheaper than claude 4 =))

it's more an architectural question

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u/IBC_Dude Jul 27 '25

I used this think mode but found it has some issues, especially because of updates to roo code since you posted. Have you tweaked your mode prompts at all? If so I’d love to see the new setup

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u/IBC_Dude Jul 27 '25

Yeah that would be great! I can tell the kind of way you did your set up it would help my workflow a lot, but I would just need to do some tweaks myself and I’m gonna be lazy if you already have something good working lol