Posted by eggbrain 1 day ago
Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup?
1) What AI subscriptions are you personally paying for? (Claude, ChatGPT/Codex, Cursor, etc)
- Which tiers?
- Have you purchased multiple subscriptions from the same provider (eg two Claude accounts)?
2) Are you using models outside (or instead) of those subscriptions? For example, pay-as-you-go APIs, OpenRouter, or locally hosted models.
- Which models and providers?
3) What coding harnesses and interfaces are you using? Are you sticking with the default CLIs or IDE integrations, or using alternatives like OpenCode, Pi, Aider, Muse Code, or custom-built harnesses?
- What made you switch harnesses (if you switched)?
4) Are you using any agent orchestration or swarm tools?
- For example, Munder Difflin, Gas Town, Ruflo, or something custom.
5) Are you using broader agent platforms like OpenClaw / Hermes Agent / Grok bot / Dots / Muse?
- If you are using them, what are your main use cases?
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I know my workflow has differed significantly from a year ago, and so it would be interesting to capture a snapshot today of what people are using and why.
I'm just looking into setting up a separate GitHub user to let claude act as a contributor, and so much of the docs are about how to prevent your github auth info from your main account accidentally being used. That implies no sandboxing!!
2. Locally hosted qwen 3.8 flash next on a wake on lan machine rtx5090
3. Currently orca as front end orchestrator to a mini pc with pi for coding and hermes for general purpose
2) No. I try my best to use oauth
3) Claude Code + Custom Harness(set of skills) + Mod. This orchestrator (I call her as "Team Leader") orchestrates other machines with Tailscale. - I've used Claude Code (Opus 5.5) by model satisfaction and mod.
4) None
5) Dots and Instinct. Main use case is research, code search and raise issue, PR reviews.
I had the free Claude Max for Open Source plan, but haven't paid for it again now that it lapsed. I haven't used Claude for ages anyway, the way it talks really annoys the hell out of me, Codex App & models are far nicer IME.
2) No
3) I'm happy with the Codex/ChatGPT desktop app, works super well. Also use the Codex VSCode plugin a bit, and started recently experimenting with herdr. Used to use Cursor but I switched when Musk bought it. Very very occasionally I use some other thing like opencode or pi for targeted situations, or Codex in the CLI
4) No
5) No
I don't have the bizarre need to have dozens of agents going at once in my work or personal time, already feel flat out at work just using Codex w/ worktrees for a few concurrent projects at a time. I feel more productive than ever, I don't see how I could add more without being overwhelmed
I sense more people will do so as you can fairly easily tailor any harness and MCP/LXC combo to suit the way you work. It's a bespoke future.
I try to use open weight and cheap models as much as possible.
At my day job I spend about $1000/mo at API prices. So like 5-10% of my hobby usage.
Hobby setup is I have a single "personal assistant" session which spawns sessions for each project or major job on a project and messages with them. I talk to the personal assistant over Signal exclusively.
Work setup is just a wrapper around Claude Code.