{"slug": "ask-hn-how-many-ai-agents-do-you-actively-use", "title": "Ask HN: How many AI agents do you actively use?", "summary": "A user reports running multiple AI agent sessions for chat and coding, and recently used an AI coding tool to convert a ~1000 PDF literature review folder into a .bibtex file for Zotero, including multi-step DOI extraction and patent checking via the EPO API, completed in a single 8-hour session with few bugs.", "body_md": "I run multiple fable/opus and sol sessions for both chat and coding- I read a lot of academic papers and it grew to a point where I needed to use a reference management system like zotero to keep track of it. So I recently one-shotted a ~1000 pdf literature review folder into a .bibtex file to import into zotero. . Includes multi-step DOI extraction and multi-review steps to reduce false positives. Also can check patents via EPO API. And can interact programmatically with zotero via its API to add tags, notes etc. Very specific to my requirements and codex sol max did it in a single 8-hr goal session with very few bugs", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-how-many-ai-agents-do-you-actively-use", "canonical_source": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49092442", "published_at": "2026-07-29 01:43:10+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-29 02:22:51.815961+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-tools", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Zotero", "EPO API", "Codex Sol Max"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-how-many-ai-agents-do-you-actively-use", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-how-many-ai-agents-do-you-actively-use.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-how-many-ai-agents-do-you-actively-use.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-how-many-ai-agents-do-you-actively-use.jsonld"}}