Everything reinforces my choice of Aider+Openrouter+code. I use models 20x cheaper than Sonnet, completely pay as you go, nobody is playing games with models, their LLM bills and my context to turn a profit. I generate Python scripts with Mongo and Cloudwatch queries instead of getting angry at the mystical sparkly button UX on their apps.

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atmosx 5 days ago | parent [-]

I would really like to learn more about your setup. Can you share details?

	▲	aitchnyu 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		I paid for 5$ of credits from OpenRouter and looked up their hosted models. I installed Aider and run it in watch mode in my project. I then create comments with instructions at various files (like #refer this ai) and add ! to last command to execute it. I have disabled autocommit but I commit frequently manually to recover when it acts dumb and overwrites stuff. https://aider.chat/docs/usage/watch.html I'm trying https://openrouter.ai/qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507