Which tools do Claude Code, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 16,893 sessions

[rcjordan]

https://armature.tech/blog/which-tools-coding-agents-install

[ergophobe]

"Neon fits well because it has a free tier, is simple to install and won't pause your app like Supabase"

I was using Supabase on a project. I don't know about Neon. It makes me wonder if there is

 - Payola

 - manipulation - if I have a small group of people who start a bunch of projects which will all be abandoned, but they steer the LLM into suggesting Neon, does it then default to Neon for reasons given in conversation? Since the conversations are not part of the training run, I don't know if that's possible, but I believe for the most part it isn't. On the other hand, as per the other thread, hundreds of thousands of junk pages recommending a service might do it.