Try different models, it's a breath of fresh air. GLM 5.2, etc. all make life much more enjoyable. They may not one-shot a complex project the same way that Claude can spit out memorized architectures, but that sort of system is always only useful for a one-off prototype anyway, so not much is lost.

Edit: for how to do this, I set up an OpenRouter account so that I could easily switch models, and then ran them in Pi inside of Orca ADE. Orca lets me easily switch from Pi to Claude Code to Kilo to Codex or Hermes or whatever. Pi+OpenRouter lets me easily switch the LLM. All of it lives in a single open source orchestrator to avoid any platform lock in to any AI company going forward, and can even do local LLM should I care to take on that massive hassle.