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Ask HN: What do you currently use for AI coding (personal or professional)?

2 points by joelthelion ↗ HN
Given how quickly things evolve, it's easy to get lost in the numerous offerings and hard to get the best deal. So, what do you use? Both clients/harnesses and LLM providers or local setups would be interesting.

Personally, I've been using opencode with Github copilot for work. I'm currently looking for cost-effective provider for personal work. Maybe openrouter with one of the cheap models?

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kstenerud
Opencode can be connected to Qwen for coding grunt work. It's pretty decent, but I prefer to use Claude. Less mistakes, better for reasoning architectural decisions with the agent checking against the existing codebase and documentation. I also keep things sandboxed in yoloAI for peace of mind and to eliminate permission fatigue.
aadilghani
Cool to see more people building phone-first agent control. I've been working on the permission layer side of this same problem. One thing I learned: session management and permission approval have very different latency requirements. Sessions you check every few minutes. Permission requests need sub-second response or your agent sits idle burning tokens. Push notifications > browser polling for that reason.