Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup?

Posted by eggbrain 3 days ago

I'm curious how people on HN are using AI day to day, and came up with a list of questions I thought could be interesting to know. No need to answer every question of course, just wanted to get a gut feel how people are using AI.

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.

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qurren 2 days ago|

$200 ChatGPT + $200 Claude, I don't pay for it, agents quant trade and pay for their own subscriptions. I then use the rest of the tokens to build stuff.

mc_ 2 days ago||

gptel + gptel-agent in emacs, hooked up to a Claude API token and ChatGPT oauth provided by work, plus some custom gptel additions (tools and tool invocation inspection mainly).

jonathanstrange 2 days ago||

Gemini Pro with web chat interface. I upload files, ask for changes, copy & paste the files back, and test and vet the code changes.

No other models or software.

hirvi74 2 days ago||

1.) Claude or ChatGPT Chatbot.

2.) Text Editor or IDE.

3.) A compiler/interpreter/SDK and potentially other dependencies.

Super lame and boring, but that's basically it.

As for my day job, it's the same minus #1 -- AI is banned.

sgarland 2 days ago||

1. Personal Claude Max $100 tier; Work Claude Team, and ChatGPT Team. I use almost exclusively Claude Opus 5.5 Medium for everything. ChatGPT seems to miss a lot that Claude doesn’t; I’ll occasionally ask it to do an adversarial review where it finds something, but that’s about it.

2. No.

3. Claude CLI and Codex, but I rarely use the latter, and just call its review function from within Claude. If Anthropic didn’t require API usage for external tooling, I’d be interested in trying a lighter harness, but it’s not that big of a deal for me.

4. No.

5. No.

profdevloper 2 days ago||

1. Claude pro monthly

2. Kimi on OpenRouter, Abliterated.ai as needed

3. Claude Code (with all models), Claude Desktop, tried pi.dev, opencode

4. No

5. No

Main use case(s):

- Software applications

- One-off automations (calendar sync from scraped data, email alerts)

- Deep research and planning for personal stuff

estetlinus 2 days ago||

1) $100 Anthropic via work 2) codex personally 3) Claude Code + Herdr with a root agent steering everything. Waiting for Rex 4 and 5) absolutely not lol

RyanShook 2 days ago||

I’ve moved from paid subscriptions on Codex to Claude to Muse.

I now use Muse as my primary agent and then spin up and manage Codex and Claude agents as needed on an Oracle server.

esafak 2 days ago||

I use OC with various subs, and am testing DeepSeek Harness, JetBrains Thinkrail, and Volt. Extending the harness with plugins is my main interest these days.

amboo7 2 days ago|

1. none 2. nvidia nim, opencode zen, google free models. local QFN iq3_xss on m1 max 64gb, paperniuk splash 3. pi agent, pi pocket 4. no 5. no

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