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Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow? (June 2026)

A developer with 20 years of programming experience is seeking advice on modern AI-assisted development workflows to prepare for in-person "developer boot-up" workshops. The organizer, who uses Linux Mint, VSCodium, and Python but has limited experience with AI tools, wants to learn about effective setups and workflows from developers currently using AI in their daily work. The workshop aims to help participants ranging from motivated newcomers to experienced developers build projects like static websites, blogs, and web APIs using modern tooling.

read2 min publishedJun 5, 2026

Hello, happy Friday!

I am looking to do some in-person "developer boot-up" workshops, and seek your suggestions for "modern tooling".

The background of the participants range from motivated newbie ("I heard you can make your own app with AI!") to existing software developers who want to get up to speed on modern development for the purposes of building stuff, and getting jobs where AI tools are being used.

For those who have been doing software development & "tech" lately using AI tools, and feel they have a great setup & flow - I would love to hear what your dev setup is, what tools you're using and what workflow has been working best for you (and your team).

// My Background

I have been programming / building for 20+ years, but have not been using AI tools much (aside from hitting up LLM APIs on a few projects).

I value open-source, and aim for long-term quality and supportability. Techniques like test-driven development (TDD), using proven / well documented tools, customer-centric development (often pairing with clients), make it easy to do the right thing. If you are familiar with Pivotal Labs, agile & XP - that's the style.

These are some of the Upcoming uses-cases for the workshop, and my own personal "IT backlog":

  • Create a static "one pager" personal/professional website

  • Setup a Blog / Static site generator (Pelican), create a simple but stylish theme

  • Create a simple web app / backend API (FastAPI) tool - form-based calculator, convert X data to PDFs, etc.

  • Figure out how to have SyncThing autosync the home folder of 3 Linux computers in the house

  • Backup & archive the photos & video from my iPhone

// Tech stack I am currently using:

- Operating system: Linux Mint Debian (LMDE)

- Editor: VSCodium

- Code: Python, HTML/CSS

- Server platform: Amazon AWS

I am guessing that most workshop participants will be using MacBooks & Windows computers - but a few are on Linux, as I recently did a "Linux install party".

I haven't used any "AI harnesses", agents or anything like that - but curious what's a good starting point to take best advantage of these tools.

Thanks for sharing the knowledge!

// JRO

Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48413629](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48413629)

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