Posted by eggbrain 2 days 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.
2) No
3) Oh my pi in bwrap sandbox, used to use Opencode
4) No
5) No
I’ve been building a harness and so use that and frequently benchmark against others.
I’ve also built tools so agents across accounts and across apps (Claude > codex > grokbot) can all communicate with eachother.
In my personal life, I'm extensively using Hermes. If you look at some previous comments you can see what I use it for. I genuinely think personal AI agents are the future, the way I feel when I use it is how I felt when I tried out the first iPhone. In 5 years time, I think most people will have a personal AI agent in the same way the most people now have an e-mail address.
I get to separate my work, have a lot of compute, manage it from anywhere, and also have my agents go bananas in their VMs.
I also run 1x Claude Ultra, 1x Claude Max, 1x Grok with X Premium, and 1x OpenAI sub.
I think the biggest leverage move for me was to get the VMs. Now I get to group my work better, and give my agents a lot more power by running more freely.
t3code has been a solid boost as well. It did hurt really bad tho, because I have been a terminal nerd for a long time. But the speed I've been able to achieve across a lot of projects has been crazy with t3code.
I just get so much more done, faster, with less context fatigue than before because of how it's laid out.
This is the video that really flipped me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLhcLqoff6k
Was a hard hit to my identity... But the gains was just too big.
2. Yes, per above
3. Mostly Claude Code, occasionally OpenCode and Codex. Rex/Ghostty as the interface to it all.
4. Yes, lightly, a custom orchestrator
5. Not actively, have tried most ex Grok Bot, but haven't taken the time
I still like to read code in an IDE.
Every few months my favorite model becomes an idiot savant so I need to switch.
I use pi as the general agent for most of the work.
2) Not really, messed around with Openrouter and Deepseek for some stuff that Claude refused to do
3) I use Claude Desktop (Linux) and a heavily modified pi.dev at work VSCode as IDE. At home just use the iOS app and Claude Desktop (Windows).
4) No
5) I have Hermes Agent setup at work and home but don't really use it.