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

4•danirogerc•48m ago
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•32m ago
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).
malkamius•17m ago
I set up an ubuntu virtual machine and use antigravity in turbo mode no restrictions. Hardly look at the code anymore at all. Get to be more like a product owner/project manager/QA and kind of just guide it like prologic said. I've released some World of Warcraft addons which all require manual testing. I have deploy and commit workflows/skills or what have you, that it automatically runs at the end of a turn so I can test in the client before releasing an update. I don't know linux very well, so I also use the antigravity cli when doing stuff to the system as well. I give it passwordless sudo even so it can be as free as it can! I have everything on github, and make checkpoints of my VM sometimes, so if it deletes my home folder or whatever, I'll just restore it.
SomeHacker44•21m ago
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

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