Explore flexible AI-coding workflows without vendor lock-in. This hands-on deep-dive weighs options such as bargain GPU clouds – Runpod, TensorDock, Kaggle T4s, and Paperspace – and then illustrates our experiment in self-hosting a Qwen 2.5 Coder on a single RTX 4080. We lay out where dollars, VRAM, and latency stack up, touch on how quantization…
What happens when engineers get total freedom to pick and choose their own tools from a credits-based, model-agnostic AI stack? In Project Reboot’s latest experiment, we allocated OpenRouter credits – matching the value of a monthly Copilot seat – to a randomly selected group of participants, with Copilot left in place as a safety net.…