Honest takes on the AI coding agents and assistants our team has tried. What we like, what doesn't work yet, and where each one fits in your workflow.
Devin is an AI 'junior software engineer' that can work on well-defined tasks without supervision.
Copilot is GitHub's AI pair programmer, and one of the first coding agents. Makes coding and ops tasks throughout GitHub ecosystem seamless.
Windsurf by Codeium is an AI-driven IDE for plug-and-play agentic programming and prototyping.
Google's Gemma 3 is a family of lightweight, open-source LLMs that perform remarkably well for their low resource requirements.
Claude Code is Anthropic's official CLI for Claude. It's a powerful agentic coding tool that actually understands your codebase.
Continue.dev is an open-source AI code assistant that brings your favorite LLM into VS Code and JetBrains for agentic coding and context-based chat.
Get leet @ Anthropic's Claude Code with this cheatsheet, including config, CLI commands, advanced features, and best practices for faster dev + test.
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