# Lightspeed (smartcomputer-ai)

5 Hacker News commenters recommended Lightspeed (smartcomputer-ai) and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Open source agent harness that people call battery-included, with a clear readme. Main caveat: no OpenAI API support.

## What people warn about

- No OpenAI API support (1 comments): "no OpenAI API support (just Anthropic + openai.com) means I can’t use it for either." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49267600))

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## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Lightspeed (smartcomputer-ai)", https://hackerapproved.com/p/lightspeed/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).