1) None, pay go deepseek v4 pro 2) N/A 3) My timeline has gone aider, MetaGPT, gemini, pi, claude, claude, pi, dirge, nodecode + dirge, nodecode + dirge + deepseek superagent harness 4) deepseek superagent harness 5) yes

As far as setup:

I use a regular old VM with qemu and a shared drive via virtiofs, and ssh.

My ABSOLUTE rule is NO KEYS IN THE VM.

I then ssh config debian slim dhcpd to a custom DNS pointed at a container running AdGuard like a pi hole with a custom guest-install.sh script, and some helpers which make it easy for me to add hosts, or targets.

I have a small .deb file i scp in, and install my tools and harnesses

and then i tunnel ssh -L or ssh -R services in and out of the vm

If I'm feeling swanky, i setup an apiKeyHelper to shuffle short lived tokens