Ask HN: What's the best AI coding assistant tool?

  • Not sure anyone can say what the best is but I’ve been using Zed with local Ollama models (phi4 is good, maybe Deepseek is better now?) and it works well for me.

  • Windsurf <- try this first Cursor <- then this Aider <- then add this to your workflow

  • Use cursor and connect to sonnet 3.5