break_the_bank

Curious what HackerNews users are using right now. Mapping my IDE usage since 2022

Goland (2022-2024)-> Cursor(November 2024 to February 2026) -> Claude Code (& VSCode or Cursor for manual edits)

The Claude Code setup is interesting, I use the terminal or GitHub for diffs. I do open an editor to do manual edits, especially when I am doing something new( that the LLM hasn't been trained on) or debugging something.

Potential improvements

Stripe Projects ( creating API keys from CLI) as something that I have wanted in the past as with LLMs sometimes with a project the slowest part seems to be deployment / bringing all the keys. I also don't enjoy the fact that I can't push a job to the web when I am leaving work. Worktrees aren't fun as I can't run the services on different ports that easily for testing, further managing different TMUXs is painful. I am curious what tools people here are using, also what do people do while the LLM generates.

ChatGPT had announced apps a few months ago and I am wondering if anyone here really uses them and loves them.

Trying to do some research on different table/grid providers and CloudFlare seems to be down.

It has taken down Twitter, my Blog and a lot of other landing pages that I am trying to visit.

I am curious if people here roll their own agents from scratch or use frameworks. I am trying to what frameworks are really working, and why. I have so far hand-rolled all of my agents, some of this is because when I first tried LangChain I was intimidated by how complex/bloated it was. It felt like writing Java while I was actually writing Python. There is also a big element of wanting a lot more control on how my agent works compared to what a framework could provide us (around context management, compacting histories if the chat gets too big etc). Having said that I am curious

1. Do you use frameworks, if so which one?

2. If you used a framework but churned, which one did you churn from and why?

3. How has the process of rolling your own framework been? How is the experience of running it in production?

When I say Cursor/ChatGPT it includes everything in those categories including Cline/Claude Code/Claude/Gemini etc! I am really curious what tools are people using and getting the most value of, how do you use them, and how essential they have become to you!

I am really curious how people's experience with AI has been in the past few years. ChatGPT came out about 3 years ago and I wanted to know how it has affected your productivity / your perception of your productivity.

I write a LOT of code and I am a fan of Cursor, though there are times where I feel like the AI is a net negative, and I should be more careful about my use of AI. Especially while debugging, it doesn't really work for me. I can't outsource "thinking" to it. Otherwise I intend to keep paying Cursor $20/month + usage. I am also subscribed to ChatGPT and pay $20/mo to it as well. I don't pay for any other tools, I don't use other tools on a semi-daily basis either.

1. What do you do for work? 2. Has AI been helpful? 3. What tools have been the most helpful? 4. What tools have been the biggest letdown?

Really curious what is working and what is not working for people. I want to understand what tools do you use on a daily basis that are AI native, that you pay for. Here's my stack

Cursor - daily, i pay and go over the $20 limit every month ChatGPT - almost daily, i pay $20 Granola - almost daily, less than ChatGPT, I don't pay yet