Reviews of AI dev tools, by an engineer who actually ships them.

AI productivity studio — smart chat, autonomous agents, 300+ assistants, unified frontier LLM access.

AI-first code editor forked from VS Code, built around model-driven completions, chat, and agent workflows.

Most-adopted open-source AI coding extension for VS Code — bring-your-own-model agent with no markup, 5M+ installs.

All-in-one open-source agentic coding extension for VS Code — plan, build, and iterate with any model.

OpenAI's terminal-native coding agent — runs locally or as a cloud agent, bundled with ChatGPT Plus/Pro and the API.

Open-source IDE extension for building custom AI code assistants — model-agnostic autocomplete, chat, and agents.

StackBlitz's in-browser AI app builder — prompt to full-stack app with live preview and one-click deploy.

AI agent toolkit: coding agent CLI, unified LLM API, TUI & web UI libraries, Slack bot, vLLM pods.

Open-source extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions — install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM.

Anthropic's official CLI for Claude — agentic coding in the terminal with file editing, shell, and IDE integrations.

Open-source AI pair-programming CLI that edits code in your local git repo across many models.

GitHub's AI pair programmer — inline code suggestions and chat across editors. Slug tracks the copilot.vim plugin used by data-collector.