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So what is your programming setup? Hype is making fundamentals confusing

5 points by danirogerc ↗ HN
It feels like everyone is exaggerating their claims about what they achieve with AI therefore making stacks and tool use choice very confusing nowadays. AI subscriptions overlap and it's always about the next best model. I think we're at a point where most of the popular ones do well.

What is your code toolkit currently? IDE, boilerplates /UI scaffolding, cloud services, CLI, agent tools, prompt engineering...

What tools are light years away from the rest, and which tools categories you feel it doesn't matter what vendor you use?

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prologic
I still use Vim (actually Neovim). I occasionally use VSCodium (with the Neovim plugin). But these days I usually don't writ emuch code, instead I guide/steer Claude Code (Optus/Fable) to do most of the "code writing" for me, so really I just use iTerm2 (macOS).
SomeHacker44
VS Code, with typical extensions for the langauge in use but no AI integration

Git

Antigravity CLI or Claude CLI

Whatever support is needed (JVM, CLR, etc.)

Arch Linux or rarely Windows 11

jumpalongjim
I no longer write code. In fact I develop in languages I'm not very familiar with. I use Claude Code, Grok Build and Pi as AI coding agents. I use Linear for issue / task management. I use Github for CI, building on multiple platforms and CD. I use Neovim when I want to read code, and Mermaid when I want my code architecture to be explained.