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Ask HN: Advice for someone who wants to try AI-assisted coding?

4•inglor_cz•2h ago
Hi, I am a soon-to-be-47 developer with C, C++, Java, PHP, Python, Typescript experience, working in the field since 2002.

I am starting a new project and I would like to experiment with some AI assistants when it comes to coding. It will be a Python project that will access Microsoft cloud using the Graph 1.0 API.

One advantage of the situation is that this project is a bit standalone and I don't have to feed it 2000 already existing classes from an existing legacy codebase to give it a context to work with.

What would you recommend me?

Are there any dark patterns involved, e.g. de-facto un-cancellable subscriptions that will make me cancel my card instead?

I would be happy hearing your experience and tales from the battlefield.

Comments

viraptor•2h ago
Cursor is kind of the default these days and has reasonable pricing. Both the completion and the agent work well. You could nitpick various options, but really it's ok and you can do a lot worse than Cursor.

An alternative is buying credit for a specific provider and using that with Aider. Which is also not bad.

None of the major players are likely to abuse your card. Just make sure you're either using a prepaid plan or prepaid credits with no auto topups.

bad_haircut72•11m ago
Cursor certainly isnt the default ! No idea where you're getting that? If anything I would say Claude Code is the default but realistically all the tools are converging to be much of a muchness
uberman•2h ago
All the free tiers of the top products will allow you a days worth of coding if you are taking bite sized tasks such as defining methods and actually proofing to understand the results.
PretzelPirate•16m ago
I started with Github Copilot and VSCode. It has a free tier and is an easy way to try out AI-assisted development.

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