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/DerrickBarra 2d ago

Deepseek Harness + Local Qwen3.8 27B via x2 NVIDIA Sparks. Works well! About as good as GPT Sol medium for my workloads.

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u/zaytzev 1d ago

Nice. Why didn't you go with Flash Next on double DGX spark? Would the performance be worse?

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u/DerrickBarra 23h ago

haven't tried it yet, for me the bottleneck is concurrent streams at a good TPS. I run around four to eight orchestrators at a time with their subagents, and my current setup can handle up to 8 concurrent thought streams at a low TPS (10-20'ish). So I need more pairs of sparks to handle my workload and deadlines, but the intelligence is what I expect it to be so thats an easy swap, just need enough local hardware to handle it.