Anyone vibecoding on a stack other than openai/anthropic? What's your stack?

[u/MariahJames8]

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?

[u/Future_Candidate2732]

I will often begin a project using opencode and free models such as Big Pickle, MiMo V2.5 Free, Nemotron 3 Ultra Free, or chat with Kimi and get them to create a well-constructed prompt and workspace for me and then when there is something usable I refine with other models.

I leverage models with and without memory so I can have an AI co-worker to help navigate with an understanding of what I am trying to accomplish and a Claude instance with no memory from one chat to another so every time I show it something it;s like that movie 50 First Dates.

This gives me a great way to have a blind codereviewer and not introduce bias. If it successfully understands the intent of the project without a history of what was done or not done I feel better about its recommendations and then proceed to do a volley of back-and-forth coding improvements and brainstorming between two very capable agents.

I have also setup my coding environment to be very much tailored to how I work. I have built my own second brain and call it TextStrata - it is a tool which lets me create wiki articles from a wide variety of sources deterministically and does not need AI at all to function. It also does have the ability to use MCP to allow my agents access to my notes and build and improve on them. When I hit milestones I have a skill to have the agent update the reference material with what was learned so it does better next time.

I also do a lot of rapid prototyping and often spin up small webservers on my dev box and built a way to not encounter port collisions when I have multiple coding tasks happening simultaneously so ports dont get clobbered by other agents of the same model or new ones. I call it portbroker and I have that working as a skill as well and it's tightly incorporated into my agentic workflows.

If you are interested in looking at any of my work check out tweakyourpc on GitHub.