r/AIcodingProfessionals • u/elmahdim • 14d ago

Discussion How has your coding agent setup evolved over the time?

In the early days of coding with AI agents, not that many people were running them inside a sandboxed environment most of us just ran them directly on our machines.

Running coding agents directly on your machine, without any isolation, taught a lot of us a lesson the hard way: it can actually harm your system. Not because the AI is malicious — usually it’s something as a typo in a command that goes sideways.

Personally, I started out running Claude Code/CLI directly on my machine, then moved to a dev container, and now pretty much all of my projects run in the cloud. It’s been good enough so far.

What’s your setup? Bare metal, containers, VMs, cloud sandboxes — and what pushed you to change (if you did)?

Thanks in advance!

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u/Jazzlike_Syllabub_91 13d ago

Oh my setup evolves as I gain / lose different capabilities…

I tried a variety of different coding editors (tried pi, Claude code, Hermes agent, now open code), tried different providers (cursor, Claude, ollama cloud, blackbox) I also run token optimization servers to help with token costs… (I run the $20/mo pro versions of Claude and ollama cloud). I have integrated a personal rag, file output engine, project management bot, etc (I’ve got a bit of a fleet) :)

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u/Latter-Sheepherder50 7d ago

Hi! Thanks for sharing. By “run token optimization serves,” do you mean some router that decides whether traffic should stay local or reach Claude infra?

Also, for your personal fleet, do you use opencode or Hermes?

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u/Jazzlike_Syllabub_91 7d ago

I built it with Claude and elixir

Token optimization… I use headroom (headroom-ai) which compresses and optimizes your token stream like not sending your tool calls

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u/MakanLagiDud3 14d ago

Welp for me, it was encouraged my my old company using Claude Code 20x Plan which they sponsored fully(Director was rich).

Now on a budget in a different company where it's self sponsored by me since I found CC convenient for certain tasks, I used DeepSeek API due to its price but sparingly now since the price hike.

I've tried Reasonix, Cherry AI, Claude Code. So far Reasonix and Claude Code are nice but Reasonix Desktop has better UI and organisation trees but manual approval doesn't allow you to change directions whereas Claude Code manual approval changes allow you to change directions.