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thefourthchime | on: Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup?
It used to be more interesting and elaborate, switching between different models. I used to use Cursor, then Codex, but since Opus 5.5 came out, I just use the Claude IDE. I got rid of all my skills and just set it to medium. Then I vaguely talk to it about very high-end things that I want, and it comes back with magic. Rinse and repeat.

I'd say the biggest trick is just to tell it what complete looks like. Be very specific about what you want it to come back with once it's done. That gives it a good idea what the goal is. It'll automatically create subagents and all that stuff. Although if you have money to burn and you're doing something large, you can tell it to just go wide or boil the ocean.

Also, make sure you're working on at least five different things. Otherwise, you're sitting around for one agent.

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fhub | parent | next
I can do 5 things concurrently for about a day max. 3 things concurrently all week and my weekends are spent untangling my brain. 3 things per day on Mondays and Tuesdays and 2 things per day concurrently on Wed-Fri and I feel ok but crave holidays.
thefourthchime | root | parent | next
I probably have some kind of pysccosis. I've had a personal $200 plan from one of the AI providers since March 2026. I'm never not making things now, I haven't rebooted my laptop for weeks because there is always an agent building something.

I cycle between 4-5 work projects and 2-3 personal projects. Every night I tell me agents I'll be going to bed and to not ask questions and keep going. I've always loved building things, but this feels more like an addiction than healthy sometimes.

They're not all done, and half the projects I bench, but this is where my personal projects live. https://wooten-labs.com

themoose8 | root | parent | next
They look like awesome apps*, as long as you're balancing your time by using them (they're outdoorsy and social!) I'd say you're doing fine. Take some extended time off if you need!

*unfortunately I'm android

networkbug | root | parent | next
not gonna lie, you don't need to be doing these projects. they're not really worth it. instead of building an app to help you meet up with your friends somewhere central just go meet up with them and explore together.
senordevnyc | root | parent
Eww, gross. Don't be rude.
abhishekbasu | root | parent | next
love the website, but quality control is important when working with these agents.

ex. i tried cool walk (https://wooten-labs.com/coolwalk) and the 'Download on the App Store' does nothing at all.

coffeesoda | root | parent | next
respect. this is how i've been working the last 4 months or so. it's a bit crazy making and i do think i'm enjoying things less because i'm preoccupied, but i sure do feel productive. lol.
glennfiedler | root | parent | next
> I probably have some kind of pysccosis

No you don’t. You are doing everything right :)

pavas | root | parent | next
Honestly it does sound like an addiction. Touch some grass...
biggestriverman | root | parent
I had the same issue. What you need in a management system for your claude sessions.
sparklingmango | parent | next
I firmly believe that those using out-of-the-box Claude Code or Codex are likely getting the most cutting edge features of agents anyways.
2001zhaozhao | root | parent | next
Yep, Claude & Codex desktop are innovating extremely rapidly. Some of the features like code review are hidden under commands, but basically obsolete whole heaps of AI code review startups when you use them.
smashed | root | parent
I just ask Claude code to do a code review of PR X and it spawns a sub-agent. No hidden commands or anything special.

If I hint it might be security sensitive code, it bumps the effort level and burns my usage.

But it works quite well.

The findings are often debatable or unreachable states but it does find stuff and improves the overall quality I find.

What's funny though is that it almost always inevitably finds something wrong, even if you just ran it in another window and fixed everything it found. There is really a point of diminishing returns.

0x4e | root | parent
I’m a user of both and don’t really see the need to go anywhere else. It all just sounds like mumbo jumbo.

As a solopreneur of a boring SMB.

I still do coding and build my own tools but I don’t see the need for agent swarms or Muse or Grok Bot or any of that.

The reason why I stay away is because I like to do QA on the slop these things generate. Having them run amok just makes me nervous.

bluerooibos | parent | next
> Claude IDE

Claude Desktop's UI seems pretty similar to Cursor now, almost. I'm still on Cursor but if I use it daily I often hit usage limits before the end of the month. Would you say using Claude directly is better bang for buck?

senordevnyc | root | parent
I switched from Cursor to Claude Code (via T3.codes) because I was running out of usage on Grok 4.7. I regret not making the switch sooner, Opus 5.5 is much better than Grok, and Grok is decent!
onion2k | parent | next
Same journey for me, although I still use skills. Claude Code is fine; the remote-control feature is why I stick with it now. Generally anything in the cloud doesn't have a proper GPU that supports WebGPU, and as nice as SwiftShader is often you want to actually run things on a real machine. remote-control is by far the easiest way to do that from my phone.
persavon | parent
What do you mean by Claude IDE?
thefourthchime | root | parent | next
Claude Code Desktop. https://code.claude.com/docs/en/desktop
neuronexmachina | root | parent
Yeah, I used to hate the Claude desktop app's Code tab, but it's actually pretty good nowadays. I actually prefer it now over claude CLI.
iainmerrick | root | parent | next
I use Claude Code Web almost exclusively for personal projects -- I’m guessing that’s pretty much the same interface but in the cloud -- and hardly ever run anything locally. Nicer UI than a terminal, real sandboxing, and it doesn’t tie up my computer. It’s just a remote agent that can make GitHub PRs.
OJFord | root | parent
But even worse for private stuff than using cloud inference to begin with, since it presumably has to clone the repo, have write & Actions access back, etc.
iainmerrick | root | parent
It's bad if you're concerned about your data being used for training, sure. But I don't think any worse than e.g. running Claude or Codex locally.

I think the only solution there is self-hosted inference (either local, or on your own cloud servers with open weights).

yuppiepuppie | root | parent
Yeah I was thrown off by that as well. I assume they mean just Claude TUI..
sabas123 | root | parent
I have a similar story as OP, for me its the Claude Desktop, not claude code.