1) I bought a z.ai 1 year subscription for their mid tier (second iteration of their pricing) for like 500€ total, so 40€/month for mostly GLM-5.3. I suppose flash is there too, but.. eh.

2) I have a 4090 which runs Qwen3.8-27b q4 fine with 180k ctx at q8. The model is capable enough to do things, but dumb enough to not be able to build elaborate nonsense like the bigger models love to do

3) I'm using https://github.com/juggler-ai/juggler which is alright. It could be a bit less vibecoded (and the readme and docs and all would benefit from less LLM writing), but, generally, the opinions shaping it seem decent, and I like just how much control over and insight into what happens it gives you.

I initially tried OpenCode, and, holy hell, what a mess. Do not ever use OpenCode. I also tried goose but it was too agentic for my taste.

4) No. I am doubtful that that kind of workflow can produce software I would deem worthy of production. I also personally just dread the whole overhead that is tickets, jira, etc, so recreating the same but now you're the manager seems like a personal hell to me.

5) No. I wouldn't know what for