Five opinionated end-to-end stacks. Each one pairs two to four tools into a daily-driver rig, with setup, tradeoffs, and the honest cost math. Pick one, live with it for a week.
Cursor for the hour-long flow state. Claude Code for the overnight refactor. One repo, two philosophies, zero context loss between them.
Funnel Kiro's free Sonnet credits into any OpenAI-compatible client through a local proxy. Cursor, Aider, OpenCode — same workflow, zero Anthropic bill.
Full offline dev workflow on a single workstation. No tokens leave the room. Qwen2.5-Coder for daily work, DeepSeek-Coder for the hard parts, Llama 3.3 for chat.
One orchestrator, many workers, clean context boundaries. The delegate_task pattern that turns long sessions into parallel sprints without context explosion.
A migration guide from OpenRouter to a self-hosted Gateway. Same OpenAI-compatible API, same models, half the latency, none of the markup.