Ask HN: What's the best AI coding tool today?
My current workflow would be something like: write detailed requirements, ssh into a remote instance, ask an agent to write a plan and giving it free rein to build it there, only pinging me back when it's ready or when it's stuck. I could write code manually in an IDE too but only when the problem is too complex for an LLM.I've used Cursor for work for a few years, but I'm really not a fan of giving all of my data to Musk. In terms of capabilities, value for money, usage limits.
- ▪My current workflow would be something like: write detailed requirements, ssh into a remote instance, ask an agent to write a plan and giving it free rein to build it there, only pinging me back when it's ready or when it's stuck.
- ▪I could write code manually in an IDE too but only when the problem is too complex for an LLM.I've used Cursor for work for a few years, but I'm really not a fan of giving all of my data to Musk.
- ▪In terms of capabilities, value for money, usage limits.
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| Original publisher | Ycombinator |
| Canonical URL | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49040025 |
| Publication time | Fri, 24 Jul 2026 18:49:35 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-24T18:59:21.040Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-24T18:59:21.924Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | jC0cM9-oIEKN |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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My current workflow would be something like: write detailed requirements, ssh into a remote instance, ask an agent to write a plan and giving it free rein to build it there, only pinging me back when it's ready or when it's stuck. I could write code manually in an IDE too but only when the problem is too complex for an LLM.I've used Cursor for work for a few years, but I'm really not a fan of giving all of my data to Musk. Also I think I want to spend less time writing code by hand.I tried Antigravity but it's utter garbage.I heard some good things about Opencode+open models/ollama cloud, but opencode seems slightly buggy when running it over ssh.I'm really reluctant to give my money to the 2 leaders in the field, I don't think I want to contribute to them making more money, but I could…
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Ycombinator.