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Poll: What's your primary AI coding agent/orchestrator Claude/Codex/Cursor, etc.?

A Hacker News user posted a poll asking which AI coding agent or orchestrator (such as Claude, Codex, Cursor, etc.) developers primarily use throughout their workday, noting the rapid changes in available tools including CLIs, desktop IDEs, and cloud agents.

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- This is a community poll from Hacker News (HN), a tech-news and discussion forum run by Y Combinator. "HN overlords" and "dang" refer to the site's mods. - The post asks which AI coding tool developers use most. The tools named: Claude (Anthropic's AI assistant, often used via its API or web app); Codex (an OpenAI model fine-tuned for code, also a VS Code plugin); Cursor (a code editor with built-in AI). More broadly, "agents" and "orchestrators" mean AI tools that can plan and execute multi-step coding tasks, not just autocomplete. - The key shift: AI coding tools have split into three form factors — CLIs (terminal-based, used by experienced devs), desktop IDEs (full editors like VS Code or Cursor), and cloud agents (web-based, no install needed). Many developers now use several of these in a single workflow. - The poster tried and failed to get this poll traction once before; HN's rising-posts algorithm can be hard to catch. The apology to "dang" is a running joke about asking the moderators for leniency.

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Poll: What's your primary AI coding agent/orchestrator Claude/Codex/Cursor, etc.?

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