yeah same that's my preferred flow now -- sill use Claude and OpenAI a bit, though recent nerfs to subs has really made using codex much harder.
DS 4.1 flash is my main powerhouse and Opus/Astra my auditors (when they're not out of tokens) otherwise K3 or DS4 pro
Ignorant questions for you and anyone else using DS:
1. who hosts the inference
2. which harness are you using with it, still CC?
I started using Pi with Astra on a whim after really enjoying Astra and reading somewhere that you get close to identical results as with the codex harness but for a significant hunk less token usage.
Coming from mostly using Claude models, the terse factual statements coming from Astra via the Pi harness are a breath of fresh air over having to wade through the flowery verbose nonsense that Claude constantly outputs