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Great Onboarding with Room for Setup Improvement
What do you like best about the product?
I like the ease of onboarding with Coder; it gives developers the ability to keep code off their laptops and allows them to develop without the risk of leaking code from their devices. Additionally, it helps developers avoid a disjointed experience when moving between laptops and virtual desktop infrastructures (VDIs).
What do you dislike about the product?
Setup can always be simplified even more. Initial setup and maintaining environments is a hassle. The initial setup wasn't so easy.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Coder provides a consistent cloud environment, easing onboarding, and reducing risk of code leaks or a disjointed experience when moving between devices.
Effortless Dev Environment Standardization
What do you like best about the product?
I use Coder to standardize development environments across my team, which means no more spending hours onboarding new devs with local setup scripts. Coder's Terraform-based templates ensure everyone has a consistent, reproducible environment right from day one, and it's definitely helped reduce those annoying 'it works on my machine' bugs. The UI is intuitive and it's super easy to use. Coder isn't just a 'cloud IDE'; it's essentially like Terraform for dev environments. The initial installation is really impressive because you can get from zero to a running server with just a single CLI command.
What do you dislike about the product?
I’d love to see more 'intelligent' auto-shutdown features—perhaps something that detects actual IDE activity rather than just a simple timer.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Coder to standardize development environments, saving time on onboarding and reducing 'it works on my machine' bugs. It's easy to use, with an intuitive UI.
Great All-in-One Dev Environment, but Container Setup Is Rough
What do you like best about the product?
The best thing about Coder is that it’s a single installation that gives you a complete development environment, including agents.
What do you dislike about the product?
The parts of Coder that I don’t like are the initial setup for containers and tooling. I’m used to working without containers and developing locally without any orchestration, so getting everything connected the first time is pretty rough.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
This is a tough one, I find that I tried out coder as a solution for managing multiple agents, but in my actual workflow practice, I'm really only using one. So I default back to a single agent CLI and don't end up using the full integrated environment.
For teams scaling AI-assisted development
What do you like best about the product?
What immediately sets Coder apart is its infrastructure-as-code approach to development environments. Workspaces are defined and provisioned through Terraform, which means your dev environments are reproducible, version-controlled, and auditable — the same discipline you'd apply to production infrastructure. For platform and DevOps teams, this is a genuine unlock: you can standardise environments across the entire engineering org without micromanaging individual machines.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some UI can sometimes be confusing - but this is common in this industry
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Great integration with IDEs and we can secure our workflows with firewall for compliancy
Turbocharged Dev Environments with Coder
What do you like best about the product?
I use Coder to quickly spin up different environments for AI systems, especially those that are security-focused. It reduces environment setup time, allowing me to jump directly into coding without wasting time. I like that it keeps a consistent environment across projects and devices and reduces dependency and configuration issues. Coder makes collaboration smoother with reproducible workspaces and lets me focus more on building rather than troubleshooting. The initial setup was smooth as well.
What do you dislike about the product?
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What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Coder to quickly spin up environments for AI projects, reducing setup time significantly. It ensures consistent environments across projects and devices, smooths collaboration with reproducible workspaces, and reduces dependency and configuration issues, letting me focus on building rather than troubleshooting.
Promising Product, will help us scale when we launch.
What do you like best about the product?
It sounds like a good product but I found it as an extra layer for my use case at this time. Once I scale out a team and product I might revisit it.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing in particular. I just didn't invest the time to fully implement the product. Claude is orchestrating my infra right now as it is in the pre-release phase.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I can see a need to implement coder for my team once the product is released. Currently I am building solo within a larger organization. I am starting with AI and agentic development. Once it scales out I can look to Coder for the ideal path to structure it.
Scaling Infrastructure and Security for 3,000+ VM Environments
What do you like best about the product?
What I like best is the absolute control Coder provides over our development infrastructure. By using Terraform as the engine for workspace templates, it allows us to define consistent, reproducible environments across any cloud or on-prem infrastructure. For an organization managing thousands of VMs, the ability to centralize security while giving developers the freedom to spin up high-performance workspaces in seconds is a game-changer. It effectively eliminates the 'it works on my machine' problem
What do you dislike about the product?
While using Terraform for templates is a strength, it can become a bottleneck as the number of custom images grows. Managing and versioning complex templates for different teams requires a disciplined DevOps approach. It would be helpful to have more native, out-of-the-box templates or a more visual 'wizard' for building standard environments to reduce the initial setup time for smaller sub-teams.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Coder solves the problem of environment drift and configuration fatigue. Instead of developers spending days troubleshooting local dependencies or 'it works on my machine' issues, we use Terraform templates to define the entire stack. This benefits me by centralizing control over our RKE2 and KVM clusters; I can update a single template to patch a security vulnerability or roll out a new version of an internal tool, and it propagates to every developer instantly. It turns development environments into managed infrastructure rather than a collection of unmanaged laptops.
Great Features, Setup Needs Improvement
What do you like best about the product?
I enjoyed that Coder is open source and is trying to bring governance and policies into AI, as I'm a huge believer in open source. I was exploring the agentic AI feature.
What do you dislike about the product?
The installer for Coder is not available on the Coder website and has to be downloaded from GitHub Releases. This can be inconvenient as not all developers might have the time to search through the GitHub page and release notes to find the correct installer. It would be better if there was an installer available on the Coder landing page. The initial setup of Coder was quite difficult due to this issue. It took me some time to figure out which installer to use. It would have been better if there was a simple .EXE installer and a small live demo to help check out Coder initially before going into full experimentation mode. A web interface for a small live demo to quickly run a few commands and check how Coder is would also be helpful. The lack of these aspects contributed to a less than ideal initial experience.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Coder's openness and efforts to bring governance and policies into AI stand out, which I value as a believer in open source.
Consistent, High-Performance Remote Workspaces with Coder + Terraform
What do you like best about the product?
Coder is a lifesaver because it replaces "it works on my machine" with consistent, high-performance remote workspaces defined by **Terraform**. I love that it lets me use my local VS Code setup while keeping the heavy lifting and source code securely on our own infrastructure.
What do you dislike about the product?
The main downside is the setup complexity; since it relies on Terraform and self-hosting, it requires serious DevOps effort to get running. Plus, because it’s entirely remote, any network latency or internet outages will completely kill your productivity.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Coder eliminates "it works on my machine" issues by centralizing environments. This benefits you by providing instant, high-performance workspaces that are identical for every dev, keeping your local machine cool while your code stays secure on your own infrastructure.
Scalable Cloud Dev Environments Streamlined
What do you like best about the product?
I use Coder for its Cloud Developer Environment, which is very beneficial for maintaining consistent development environments without the hassle of missing dependencies and configuration mismatches. I like its scalable infrastructure that suits my needs and the Coder Tasks feature, which automates the provisioning of workspaces. This allows me to seamlessly integrate AI agents and human collaboration in a secure environment. The initial setup of Coder was pretty easy for me.
What do you dislike about the product?
I suppose for some the reliance on Terraform could have a steep learning curve, and the self-hosting requirement could be troublesome for others. The burden of managing the Terraform state and operational overhead of maintaining your own infrastructure can reduce developer efficiency.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Coder to maintain consistent development environments, avoiding config mismatches. Its scalable infrastructure and Coder Tasks automate workspace provisioning, which enables seamless AI and human collaboration in a secure environment.
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