alt Hacker NewsI'd really like to see a regular poll on HN that keeps track of which AI coding agents are the most popular among this community, like the TIOBE Index for programming languages.
Hard to keep up with all the changes and it would be nice to see a high level view of what people are using and how that might be shifting over time.
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I personally don't want to trawl through Twitter to find the current state-of-the-art, so I read Zvi Mowshowitz's newsletter:
His newsletter put me onto using Opus 4.5 exclusively on Dec 1, a little over a week after it was released. That's pretty good for a few minutes of reading a week.
Not this community's opinion on agents, but I've found it helpful to check the lmarena leaderboards occasionally. Your comment prompted me to take a look for the first time in a while. Kind of surprising to see models like MiniMax 2.1 above most of the OpenAI GPTs.
https://lmarena.ai/leaderboard/code
Also, I'm not sure if it's exactly the case but I think you can look at throughput of the models on openrouter and get an idea of how fast/expensive they are.
I have an agent skill that is currently in the top 10 or so of the skills.sh directory - in terms of that audience, it's about 80% claude code.
Also 75% darwin-arm64
When all of industry is trying to catch up with the features of one coding agent - it may be a signal to just use that one.
Question is, are people on HN procrastinating and commenting here because the agent isn't very good and they're avoiding having to write the code themselves, or is the agent so good that it's off writing code, and the people here are commenting out of boredom?
I just started something like that, haven’t shared it widely yet, but here we go - happy if you participate: https://agentic-coding-survey.pages.dev/