Augment Code
Hacker ApprovedRanked 15 of 41 coding agents by recommenders
Recommended for a context engine that understands large codebases and finds where changes belong; the most common caveat is the move to per-token pricing.
Recommended for a context engine that understands large codebases and finds where changes belong; the most common caveat is the move to per-token pricing.
26 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 20
- criticize it
- 6
- approval share
- 77%
Recommended in 7 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it carries the badge
- 20 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 3.3 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 7 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Strong codebase context engine
“Augment’s main value add is their context engine, and imo they do it really well.”
Comment from 8 Dec 2025 in “Launch HN: Nia (YC S25) – Give better context to coding agents” “I opened my Obsidian directory with Augment Code, and it indexed it in seconds.”
Comment from 7 May 2026 on Hacker News “It works far better than painstakingly stuffing your own context manually”
Comment from 22 Dec 2025 in “Scaling LLMs to Larger Codebases” - Comment from 2 Feb 2026 in “Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft”
- Comment from 8 Dec 2025 in “Launch HN: Nia (YC S25) – Give better context to coding agents”
Useful code review comments
“our comments are 2 to 3x more likely to get fixed compared to bugbot coderabbit etc”
Comment from 27 Jan 2026 in “There Is an AI Code Review Bubble” “most of the review comments are actionable and relevant”
Comment from 11 Dec 2025 in “Why GPT-5.2 is our model of choice for Augment Code Review” “it's been better than most human reviewers I've had”
Comment from 11 Dec 2025 in “Why GPT-5.2 is our model of choice for Augment Code Review” Considered best in class
“best in class for AI code context”
Comment from 8 Dec 2025 in “Launch HN: Nia (YC S25) – Give better context to coding agents” “best in class for a long time”
Comment from 17 Apr 2026 in “Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI” “AugmentCode (our favorite)”
Comment from 2 Dec 2025 in “Show HN: CodeBake – so that PM tasks aren't extra work” Works smoothly, efficiency boost
“I have absolutely found a lot of benefit from my tools.”
Comment from 21 Jan 2026 in “Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works?” “AI tools give me a decent efficiency boost”
Comment from 21 Jan 2026 in “Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works?” “Augment works smoothly for me”
Comment from 7 May 2026 on Hacker News
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Gets stuck or invents things
“going off on a wild goose chase or getting stuck in an infinite loop”
Comment from 27 Feb 2026 in “OpenAI's $110B funding round (investments from Amazon, Nvidia, SoftBank)” “promptly and also very confidently made up more stuff”
Comment from 2 Dec 2025 in “OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race” Strongly negative opinions
“absolute garbage btw, it has negative value”
Comment from 9 Sep 2026 in “We Must Return to the Office to Use AI in Person” “Augment Code are trash humans”
Comment from 3 Nov 2025 in “</> Htmx – The Fetch()ening”
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| Augment CodeThis page | 20 | 6 | 77% | 7 | — | Approved |
What people said
All 29 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“absolute garbage btw, it has negative value”
“It let's me easily switch between GPT and Claude models.”
“Augment works smoothly for me”
“I opened my Obsidian directory with Augment Code, and it indexed it in seconds.”
“best in class for a long time”
“The main challenge is to avoid over engineering.”
“My favorite recent interaction with Augment was to have one session write a small API”
“going off on a wild goose chase or getting stuck in an infinite loop”
“builds context of your project and tends to understand your repos better”
“our comments are 2 to 3x more likely to get fixed compared to bugbot coderabbit etc”
“I can just @powershell-advanced-function-design at the top so the agent references my rule file”
“AI tools give me a decent efficiency boost”
“I have absolutely found a lot of benefit from my tools.”
“Was always envious of how Augment was able to do this.”
“a new tool called Augment Cod”
“But Augment is not the most stable.”
“it's good, but still subpar when compared to old supervmaven or cursor.”
“I'm back to using Augment, which is Claude-based autocompletion.”
“It works far better than painstakingly stuffing your own context manually”
“it is a lot better at finding where in the codebase changes need to be made without the planning”
“most of the review comments are actionable and relevant”
“it's been better than most human reviewers I've had”
“Augment’s main value add is their context engine, and imo they do it really well.”
“best in class for AI code context”
“promptly and also very confidently made up more stuff”
“AugmentCode (our favorite)”
“Augment code has recently switched to a per-token instead of per-message pricing model. This hasn't gone down particularly well”
“Augment doesn't support local models or anything else other than Claude/GPT”
“Augment Code are trash humans”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.