Best AI tools to write and ship code faster
Whether you want inline autocomplete, a chat assistant, or a fully autonomous agent that edits your repo, these tools cover every style of AI-assisted development.
Recommended tools
NEWClaude Code
Anthropic's agentic coding tool that works in your terminal and editor, understands your whole codebase, and plans, writes, and refactors autonomously.
NEWMonkeyCode
An open-source, enterprise-grade AI coding platform from Chaitin Technology. It supports private deployment, is compatible with a wide range of large language models, and provides a cloud-based development environment.
NEWGitHub Copilot
The most widely adopted AI pair programmer: inline completions, chat, and an autonomous coding agent deeply integrated with GitHub and your IDE.
NEWCursor IDE Usage Guide
A detailed tutorial with tips for the Cursor AI code editor.
NEWOpenAI Codex
A cloud-based software engineering agent from OpenAI that runs tasks in a sandbox and handles features, bug fixes, and pull requests in parallel.
NEWCline
An open-source autonomous coding agent for VS Code that can create and edit files, run commands, and work with many model providers.
NEWAider
A lightweight, terminal-based AI pair programming tool with Git-aware multi-file edits and automatic commits.
NEWWindsurf Editor
An AI-native code editor with agentic flows that keep you and the AI on the same page while building software.