Comment by intothemild

Yes. I run local models, Qwen3.6-27B and IMHO the massive level up was the agents and skills files that I've worked on.

Basically I run a flow

Brainstorming > Create Spec > Review Spec* > Create Plans > Review Plan* > Execute Plan (in subagents) > Review Against Plan > Code Review* > Open PR > Finish Plan (marks plan files done)

* Each review step marked with an asterisk uses a paid larger LLM, right now Deepseek V4 Pro. Having it do this catches a lot of small things, and now I'm effectively one shotting any task I give it.

And it's not costing me much at all, just those three reviews. I could use a free model like Gemini but I'm happy with what I've got.