Open-source Grok Bot alternative cuts coding agent costs from $110/day to $4
Arindam_1729 · x · 2026-10-18
Developer Arindam open-sourced his own team of AI bots running on open models locally — each contact is a bot with tools (web search, cloud browser, code mode), an editable MEMORY.md, and configurable approval levels. A router named Jev dispatches tasks across bots in a few hundred ms. Key economics: letting Jev handle routing decisions reportedly drops coding-agent costs from $110/day to $4/day. The 'Jev engineering' idea: the expensive model thinks, the cheap model decides — scoring notes before they hit context, routing simple steps to faster workers, picking recovery paths on tool failure, and running focused checks before full test suites. Memory is a plain Markdown file, no vector DB; connects Slack/GitHub/Gmail/Notion via Composio.
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