HACKER Q&A
📣 break_the_bank

What is your dev set up like?


Curious what HackerNews users are using right now. Mapping my IDE usage since 2022

Goland (2022-2024)-> Cursor(November 2024 to February 2026) -> Claude Code (& VSCode or Cursor for manual edits)

The Claude Code setup is interesting, I use the terminal or GitHub for diffs. I do open an editor to do manual edits, especially when I am doing something new( that the LLM hasn't been trained on) or debugging something.

Potential improvements

Stripe Projects ( creating API keys from CLI) as something that I have wanted in the past as with LLMs sometimes with a project the slowest part seems to be deployment / bringing all the keys. I also don't enjoy the fact that I can't push a job to the web when I am leaving work. Worktrees aren't fun as I can't run the services on different ports that easily for testing, further managing different TMUXs is painful. I am curious what tools people here are using, also what do people do while the LLM generates.


  👤 hmokiguess Accepted Answer ✓
I miss spending time on vscode, these days I'm all in on terminal and claude, I've been contemplating slowing down again and going back to writing code not just specs and tests