Intent by Augment Code
Shares rank 8 of 9 AI code editors by recommenders
Recommended for multi-agent, spec-driven coding that keeps the developer's understanding of the code intact. Caveats raised are its own credits system and a setup seen as overkill.
Recommended for multi-agent, spec-driven coding that keeps the developer's understanding of the code intact. Caveats raised are its own credits system and a setup seen as overkill.
7 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 2
- approval share
- 71%
Recommended in 3 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: 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 doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 2.5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 3 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
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What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Own credits system
“the fact that they have their own credits system turns me off of it”
Comment from 14 Mar 2026 in “Parallels Confirms MacBook Neo Can Run Windows in a Virtual Machine”
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The four most recommended other AI code editors, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
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| Cursor | 853 | 820 | 51% | 13 | 1 yr65 owners | — |
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| AWS Kiro | 36 | 37 | 49% | 11 | — | — |
| Intent by Augment CodeThis page | 5 | 2 | 71% | 3 | — | — |
What people said
All 7 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“seemed like way overkill / unintuitive to use agents like I prefer”
“The result is you can still move absurdly fast and still maintain the understanding, which the one-shot approach throws away.”
“UI like Codex, Cursor, T3 Code, Conductor, Intent etc are necessary.”
“the fact that they have their own credits system turns me off of it”
“i want to quickly see how it works not unskippable video of some person blabbering”
“has promoted awareness of my mental state in the moment”
“Multi agents orchestration, spec driven, different models for different tasks”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.