Ask HN: What do you currently use for AI coding (personal or professional)?
2 pointsby joelthelion2 hours ago2 comments
  • kstenerudan hour ago
    Opencode can be connected to Qwen for coding grunt work. It's pretty decent, but I prefer to use Claude. Less mistakes, better for reasoning architectural decisions with the agent checking against the existing codebase and documentation. I also keep things sandboxed in yoloAI for peace of mind and to eliminate permission fatigue.
    • joelthelionan hour ago
      Do you pay for the model? Or run it locally? If so, which hardware do you use? Is it fast?
      • kstenerud36 minutes ago
        I use an RTX 3090 with 24gb on it, which can comfortably fit https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.6-27B. It's freely downloadable, so you only pay for the gfx card and the electricity. There are also plenty of models out there that work well on Apple unified memory.

        But mostly I just use Claude now since I already have a max subscription. I've done hybrid setups in the past where I had Claude do the hard stuff and a local LLM do the code monkey stuff, but with the right optimizations I'm no longer hitting the Claude token ceiling.

  • zeeshan_saud2 hours ago
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