Course · 6 chapters
Coding on Open Models
Run the agent harness you already know on open backends (GLM, Kimi, DeepSeek, Qwen), measure the gap yourself, and route by task.
What you'll be able to do
- Redirect Claude Code's own connection settings to GLM, Kimi, and other Anthropic-compatible backends, and know exactly what changes when you do.
- Build a small personal eval harness on your own repo, because the public leaderboard is answering a different question than the one you're asking.
- Send planning to a frontier model, implementation to mid-tier, and quick edits to whatever's cheapest, using your own eval numbers instead of vibes to draw the lines.
- Where open coding models still break under real workloads, and the checkpoints, gates, and task splits that catch it before it costs you a day.
- Seats, spend caps, and policy that make an open-model addition to the stack survive contact with a whole engineering team, not just your own terminal.
What's inside
- 1Coding on Open Models: Start Here
Five chapters on wiring, measuring, and routing open coding models into a real engineering team's stack, in the order that keeps you from redoing work.
- 2Wiring Open Backends
Redirect Claude Code's own connection settings to GLM, Kimi, and other Anthropic-compatible backends, and know exactly what changes when you do.
- 3Benchmark It Yourself
Build a small personal eval harness on your own repo, because the public leaderboard is answering a different question than the one you're asking.
- 4Routing by Task
Send planning to a frontier model, implementation to mid-tier, and quick edits to whatever's cheapest, using your own eval numbers instead of vibes to draw the lines.
- 5The Failure Modes
Where open coding models still break under real workloads, and the checkpoints, gates, and task splits that catch it before it costs you a day.
- 6Team Rollout of a Hybrid Stack
Seats, spend caps, and policy that make an open-model addition to the stack survive contact with a whole engineering team, not just your own terminal.
Earn a certificate
Complete all chapters to receive your certificate of completion.