Ming's Spell Compendium #1 -- One Year of Vibe Coding: A Cold Hard Look
This is a cultural adaptation — not a literal translation — of the original Chinese article. Some Chinese cultural references have been swapped for Western equivalents that hit the same emotional note. Foreword Over the past year I’ve burned through more than $10,000 in API tokens across Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI. So everything in this article is based on hands-on experience with the strongest models available — Opus 4.6, Codex-5.3-xhigh, Gemini 3 Pro — used without budget constraints. ...