Augment
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
0warn against
Nov 5, 2025first mention
Jun 12, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I use Augment and Intent with Opus 4.6”
Frontend developer for 12 years, team of 2on “Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you prof…”
“Augment kind of became impossible to avoid once we realized the new guy is outpacing the rest of us”
team of 4 rewriting a legacy CRMon “Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you prof…”
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“I use Augment with Claud Opus 4.5 every day at my job.”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
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Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally? 2 mentions
- Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fable builds it in public 1 mention
- Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works? 1 mention
- Google Got Its Groove Back and Edged Ahead of OpenAI 1 mention
- Developers are choosing older AI models 1 mention
Also written as Augment Code. Data: augment.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 6
“I copy and pasted your prompt into Augment (Opus 4.7) and told it to do everything you wanted”
“I use Augment and Intent with Opus 4.6”
“Augment kind of became impossible to avoid once we realized the new guy is outpacing the rest of us”
“I use Augment with Claud Opus 4.5 every day at my job.”
“after leaving Augment Code”
“Augment code has recently switched to a per-token instead of per-message pricing model. This hasn't gone down particularly well”