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What’s your favorite vibe coding setup?

1466 sats \ 21 comments \ @thebullishbitcoiner 31 Jul AI

On my journey to master the machine and was wondering what your setups are.

What AI model?
IDE or terminal?
Pay for usage or a flat monthly amount?

Feel free to go as in-depth as you want. I’m curious to know why you chose the setup you have.

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121 sats \ 2 replies \ @optimism 2 Aug

Currently testing Roo Code with qwen3-coder. Liking Roo after I finetuned the instructions (not done yet), Qwen3 makes tons of mistakes though, so I'm not super-pleased (lots of time and compute wasted on bugfixes introducing new bugs)

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @optimism 2 Aug

I had Qwen3 fix a threading / concurrent access issue it created (in golang) overnight and just found that it actually fixed it after wasting 4M+ tokens. Browsing through the iterations - it fixed the issue 14 times before wrapping a mutex solution.

Now I have to explain to Qwen that mutexes are technically antipatterns lol

100 sats \ 0 replies \ @thebullishbitcoiner OP 2 Aug

This is mainly why I’m using a flat fee plan at the moment. I don’t know enough to know if a model is going in circles. 😆

64 sats \ 3 replies \ @itsrealfake 31 Jul

good success w/ $20 cursor + BMAD

by two weeks in my progress slowed as I reached the throttle threshold for their expensive models. progress still possible, tho!

at the dayjob, I've used a fair bit of Copilot in a large production application.

I've previously used models w/ Ollama locally and Vinice.AI API to achieve some chatbots to ask development questions to.

cursor gets it done nicely.

I recommend also looking at Venice (pay by SATs for API) + OpenWebUI for personal use, enabling a local prompt interface with a hosted, nokyc inference

21 sats \ 2 replies \ @Signal312 1 Aug

Did you try ppq.ai? It's also pay with lighting, per query.

68 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 1 Aug

I tried it 2 days ago after @BlokchainB mentioned it. It works okay-ish for me, but not with every IDE, and sometimes it hangs on a query. It's prepaid so you get dollar exposure this way, but you can top up in $2 increments.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @itsrealfake 1 Aug

heard of it, haven't tried it.

204 sats \ 4 replies \ @OT 31 Jul

The Good Stuff: 015 - Our Vibe Coding Setups

Media file: https://anchor.fm/s/103ad8d20/podcast/play/105875507/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2025-6-23%2F404391958-44100-2-7cdce25477db3.mp3

I haven't listened to this one yet but it looks highly related.

So far I haven't done much vibe coding. Would like to as I have a lot of ideas that would be nice to create. The cost and some privacy concerns are holding me back a bit.

52 sats \ 2 replies \ @thebullishbitcoiner OP 1 Aug

The Good Stuff: 015 - Our Vibe Coding Setups

Thanks! Found and queued it up on Fountain.

So far I haven't done much vibe coding. Would like to as I have a lot of ideas that would be nice to create. The cost and some privacy concerns are holding me back a bit.

What privacy concerns do you have? Maybe give PPQ.ai a shot. You can pay with Lightning (the default is $2 worth of credits) and configure it to work with VS Code.

100 sats \ 0 replies \ @OT 1 Aug

I just don't like the idea of big tech training their models on my data. I guess vibe coding wouldn't really be giving away too much.

I tried cypherflow where you can pay with LN or ecash with different models. I generated some code but I haven't done anything with it. I'll need to spend more time on it to find how to make it into an app or piece of software for everyone to use.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 1 Aug

So did I

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 1 Aug

The Good Stuff: 015 - Our Vibe Coding Setups It’s time for me to get set up with vibe coding

244 sats \ 2 replies \ @k00b 31 Jul

I'm primarily using Cursor's IDE with Claude 4. I think billing is flat up to a certain limit and I haven't hit the limit yet. We have a business account with Cursor.

78 sats \ 0 replies \ @nichro 31 Jul

I noticed they default to "thinking" models now. Have to go in settings to re-enable the other one.

What's your experience been like between thinking and non-thinking Claude (if any)?

Haven't tried 4 yet, but with 3.5 & 3.7 I thought non-thinking was almost always better at doing stuff, except for planning purposes. This is based entirely on vibes and it bothers me to an unnecessary extent how I can't be totally sure if my vibes are true or I'm just hallucinating/placebo'ing it somehow.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @thebullishbitcoiner OP 31 Jul

Cursor is my primary as well. Do you ever switch models or is Claude 4 good for everything?

I’ve seen headlines that say this model can do so and so for a lot cheaper and always wondered if that matters if the billing is flat.

112 sats \ 2 replies \ @justin_shocknet 31 Jul

Cursor with Gemini 2.5

Started tinkering with Jules on a few things (free)

I also pay for gpt for fast response, 4o, and occasional planning / research (3).

Claude free tier for copy editing.

Haven't found a terminal tool I like as a shell first user, would probably pipe that into Qwen via Groq (free tier).

Also building a thing that uses Qwen via Groq free tier.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @thebullishbitcoiner OP 1 Aug

Have you tried Claude Code for the terminal? I’ve heard good things about it.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @justin_shocknet 1 Aug

Haven't felt Claude is worth paying for to try it, I have used the Gemini clone but it's not what I'm looking for in a terminal, I want something that runs from bash with terminal context

100 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 31 Jul

Typo in title

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @thebullishbitcoiner OP 31 Jul

Fixed. Thanks!

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @ACYK 1 Aug

Honorable mention for http://shakespeare.diy/ which has been very impressive so far for quickly generating simple web apps