My favorite combination today is Pi with Deepseek 4.

Here are a couple quick one-off vibe coded games that I made with Pi installed on a little $87 Windows 11 netbook, using Deepseek 4 Pro (via the Openrouter API). Both apps together cost less than 3 cents and took just a few minutes to build:

https://com-pute.com/nick/netwars-space_shooter--deepseek-4.html

https://com-pute.com/nick/3d_game--deepseek-4.html

My prompt for the space game was: 'create a 3D space shooter reminiscent of the old Netwars game'. Deepseek did a pretty darn great job - worth at least a few pennies ;)

Give it a try:

Get an API key from https://openrouter.ai

Install Node.js LTS from https://nodejs.org

Open a new PowerShell window and install Pi:

npm install -g @mariozechner/pi-coding-agent

If you get a permission error, run this in PowerShell as administrator, then run the Pi install again:

Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope CurrentUser

Ask Pi to build you something. Talk to it if you have questions.