p/vscode
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fmerian
According to the 2025 @Stack Overflow Developer Survey (49,000+ participants), @VS Code and @Visual Studio remain the most used dev environments, despite the rise of subscription-based, AI-enabled code editors @Cursor and @Windsurf among others. Both maintain their top spots relying on extensions as optional, paid AI services like @Github Copilot and @Kilo Code.
Curious which IDE the Product Hunt community uses the most?
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p/handleai
Derek Cheng
There are tons of great coding agent CLIs and IDEs out there. Which do you use on a regular basis? What stands out as being the killer feature?
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p/vibecoding
Giovambattista Fazioli
Genuine question: since CLI-based coding agents became a thing, how many of you have actually stopped opening your editor?
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Aaron O'Leary
AI coding tools seem to come in two main flavors: IDE-based, like @Cursor and @GitHub Copilot, and terminal-based setups, like using @Claude Code to generate commands, scripts, or entire files. Both have their fans, but which one actually helps you move faster?
Curious what flow people are sticking with long term, and where you see the most gains (or frustrations).
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p/kilocode
Terminal or editor-first UI? How do you prefer to work with AI coding agents?
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p/general
Gabe Perez
I've been primarily using @Cursor as I like how it operates, enjoy that it's visual, and I am getting very comfortable with using it and being able to easily select different code bits and modify what I need....however....I recently started using Gemini CLI in @Warp and I must say... I'm kinda liking it. I feel that it's able to do a lot more, faster without needing me to jump in. When I do jump in, it's simply to provide it guidence and direction.I haven't done much with it yet, but I can see myslef now doing a combination of CLI and IDE development. I'm curious what everyone elses experience is! Or if you haven't used a CLI or IDE AI tool, why?A bit of additional background, I'm not a develpoer but more of a "vibe coder" I can kinda understand different languages and don't mind diving into tech docs but I prefer AI do more of the coding than me :)
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p/augment-code
Aleksandar Blazhev
Augment Code has been quietly building enterprise-grade coding tools for large engineering teams, and they launched Intent. heir answer to what comes after the IDE.
According to their announcement:
"The bottleneck has moved. The problem isn't typing code. It's tracking which agent is doing what, which spec is current, and which changes are actually ready to review."
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p/claude
New AI models pop up every week. Some developer tools like @Cursor, @Zed, and @Kilo Code let you choose between different models, while more opinionated products like @Amp and @Tonkotsu default to 1 model.
Curious what the community recommends for coding tasks? Any preferences?
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p/cursor
I love @Cursor. It's enabled me to build (vibe code) so many web apps, sites, extensions, and little things quickly that 1. bring me joy and 2. help me with work or realize personal projects.However... I'm seeing a TON of movement around @Claude by Anthropic's Claude Code. I haven't personally tried it but it's apparently insane (and can also be expensive?)I'm curious. Should I switch? What are you currently using? Or do they both have their own use case. I right now like cursor because I can build directly in a GitHub repo or locally and it helps me learn my way around an IDE.Looking forward to hearing everyone's thoughts!
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p/producthunt
Meow, world!
I really enjoyed reading The Breakpoint, Product Hunt's weekly, developer-focused newsletter, and wanted to relaunch it as a token of appreciation to the community.
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Nolan Vu
Stack settled into this after breaking it a few times:
Cursor for IDE work. Claude Code for longer agentic runs when I trust the spec. Codex for boring tickets while I'm in meetings. v0 when a client needs a UI mock in 10 minutes.
The thing that actually changed how I use all of it: stopped treating them as interchangeable and just routing by task type. Refactors go to Cursor. Full feature from a spec goes to Claude Code. Tedious backlog stuff goes to Codex.
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emmanuel Onuoha
Nika
I am attempting to observe what you use for coding. I have come across many tools on Product Hunt + Web, but I am fairly certain I have missed quite a bit. I divided them into "traditional" and "specialised".
Traditional AI models:
DeepSeek
I might be missing some but I've been pretty much in love with @Lovable, @Cursor, @bolt.new and have been trying to use @Replit more and I honestly haven't touched @BASE44 too much but have heard good things. @chrismessina has nudged me to use @Windsurf for whenever I build another Raycast Extension!Currently I use:- @bolt.new / @Lovable - @Cursor - @Warp Curious what everyone thinks is the top one so far!
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Three months ago, @Cursor launched Composer 1, their first coding agent, and they just released a new update, introducing 1.5.
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Mark Watson
Hey everyone,
I don't actually like using the term "vibe coding". We've been software developers for over a decade ,are not one-shotting features, and have a very opinionated and strict dev process.
Ken Miller
I recently installed @Augment Code based on an ad somewhere, and I'm super impressed, but haven't heard a peep about it in most channels. But it got me wondering what else I'm missing. This is a crowded field with a few frontrunners and a lot of more esoteric newcomers, but I want to know about the ones that blow your mind but hardly get any coverage.
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Sarthak .k
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Denis 🐝
Kate Shpak
For years, "learn to code" was a golden rule for career growth. But with AI assistants writing entire functions, debugging code, and even generating full applications, is traditional coding knowledge still essential?
Will the future of development be prompt engineering rather than coding?
Will AI make deep knowledge of algorithms and system design more important, while reducing the need for syntax memorization?
If AI does the coding, what skills will become most valuable for future developers?
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Ashish Kumar Sahoo
