Show HN: I asked HN about AI agentic setups, here are 750 of the comments mapped
A few days back I posted here asking about how people were using AI / doing agentic coding (see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50366117 ). Needless to say, I was overwhelmed by the response! The one challenge I found, however, was that the comments were almost impossible to parse: some users answered my questions in the format I provided, others answered in any order, but either way it was really hard to get a picture of who was using what from that thread alone. So, I spent last night bu
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Source account: A few days back I posted here asking about how people were using AI / doing agentic coding (see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50366117 ). Needless to say, I was overwhelmed by the response! The one challenge I found, however, was that the comments were almost impossible to parse: some users answered my questions in the format I provided, others answered in any order, but either way it was really hard to get a picture of who was using what from that thread alone. So, I spent last night bu
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Source votes: 5 votes (Nov 7, 2026 UTC; cumulative since publication) Recent records to compare: “Show HN: Cinnamon – a household AI agent with shared context and memories” (Hacker News, Nov 6, 2026); “Show HN: AJX – Find out where AI agents get stuck using your product” (Hacker News, Nov 6, 2026). Shared themes are navigation hints; they have not been verified as the same need or independent corroboration.
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