AI coding agent setups from 663 Hacker News comments
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Ranked by a public rubric, not by votes: what a comment adds counts, not who wrote it. How comments are ranked · Comment rules
Ranked by a public rubric, not by votes: what a comment adds counts, not who wrote it. How comments are ranked · Comment rules
Summary
AI News Report read all 663 comments on a November 4 Ask HN thread about agent setups and counted tools for the 424 commenters who named one. Claude Code led with 180 users, then Codex with 103, and 120 people mixed Claude and OpenAI products. 148 named open-weight models. Common habits were parallel agents in git worktrees, a fresh reviewer per change, and sandboxing unattended agents. The counts come from reader tagging of a self-selected thread, and the setups were not tested.