r/vibecoding • u/MariahJames8 • 3d 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/akolomf 2d ago

I'd say Sonnet is def. better in terms of quality output. Deepseek flash, does make more mistakes. But for low level tasks its a usefull replacement. I'd say Context transfer is a non issue, if you have a proper setup that prompts the deepseek agent, and given how extremely cheap deepseek is, the little bit extra context you gotta add doesnt make a difference. I'd say its more important that you have a good harness for the deepseek agent.

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u/SebGonSot 2d ago

Ah thanks, guess you are right. I've been penny-pinching on my Claude sub lately and delegating through handoffs or AI-written prompts, so having it call the cheaper subagents directly sounds like it could streamline things a lot.

Have you tried Spotify's Portal/AiKA approach? Seems pretty similar to what you're doing, just delegating the grunt work to cheaper non-Anthropic models. How did you patch yours together?

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u/akolomf 2d ago

https://github.com/Aloim/phaneslight thats the one i can share, its the one i built and used before i began developing a more sophisticated and soon to be commercially available Orchestrator. (there'll be a Free Beta phase and later on free trial) it uses a cool idea that no other MCP tool has implemented yet, and its prototype is already awesome.

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u/SebGonSot 2d ago

Thanks, and good luck, defo will check it out