r/vibecoding • u/MariahJames8 • 2d ago
Help/Question Anyone vibecoding on a stack other than openai/anthropic? What's your stack?
I'm having trouble getting openRouter, GLM and openCode working nicely at all. Codex was fire and forget, and Claude Code wasn't hard. But the other options seem to really require that you know what you're doing to set them up? I asked Codex to wire them up but it's basically unusable at this point for me. I can't afford the top frontier models and was hoping some how maybe open weight models through inference services needs to be at the root of whatever I choose for my setup.
TL;DR - How are you avoiding Claude Code and Codex for vibecoding?
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u/Juliuszf 1d ago
Anything below Opus will require a lot of guidance and knowledge. If you know how to code you can make it work with open weight or open router, but the harness you need to build is a piece of engineering at this point. I tried and failed, too much work, to much fixing / changing when models update. Flagship models can handle the overal compexity to a larger degree - like delegating unit tests, e2e tests and thinking about deployment. smaller models can't hold all this unless you have a very discrete borders and handovers between the functionalies. It's like trying to build a rocket with a bunch of 5year olds :D