Practitioners Are Routing Claude Code's Grunt Work to Free Open-Source Models via OpenCode — and SSHing Into the Mobile Firecracker VM to Do It

r/ClaudeAI (286 upvotes / 68 comments), github.com/RohanAdwankar/ws-term·medium signalXBlueskyLinkedInCopy link

A r/ClaudeAI post at 286 upvotes documents a token-budget pattern that is not in any official docs: install OpenCode (which grants free tokens for open-source models) inside Claude Code, have Claude delegate the bulk of implementation to OpenCode, then have Claude do frontier-quality cleanup passes. The mobile app's Claude Code cloud option provisions a Firecracker VM, so the author built ws-term (github.com/RohanAdwankar/ws-term) to "ssh" into that machine from a phone and drive OpenCode directly — removing the need to leave a desktop running. The author is candid about the tradeoff: only worth it near the token limit, because the free models take longer to work bugs out.