- GitHub Copilot
- Tabnine
- Windsurf (formerly Codeium)
- Amazon Q Developer
- JetBrains AI Assistant
- DeepSeek Coder
- Phind
- llm-vscode
- Qodo (formerly CodiumAI)
- Cursor
- Zed AI
- Continue
- Cline
- Aider
- Roo Code
- Project IDX
- bolt.diy
- goose
Articles and videos
- Coding Made AI—Now, How Will AI Unmake Coding? — It won’t replace many coding jobs, but many coding jobs will be increasingly AI-assisted by (September 19th, 2022) ► The subtitle says it all.
- Replit’s Ghostwriter AI can explain programs to you—or help write them — Ghostwriter generates, completes, or transforms code in 16 languages, similar to GitHub Copilot. by (October 31st, 2022) ► The subtitle says it all.
- DeepMind’s latest AI project solves programming challenges like a newb — Google's AI division tackles programming languages with a language model. by (December 8th, 2022) ► DeepMind tries to create an AI generating code, the results are still not good.
- L’IA va-t-elle changer notre métier de développeur ? (Louis-Guillaume MORAND, Eric GRENON)↓ by and (April 13th, 2023) ► Some good advice, a lot of bullshit, and plenty of broken demos.
- AI system devises first optimizations to sorting code in over a decade — Writing efficient code was turned into a game, and the AI played to win. by (June 7th, 2023) ► DeepMind created AlphaDev to optimise assembly code and improved some sorting algorithms.
- A Critical Look at AI-Generated Software — Coding with ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, and other AI tools is both irresistible and dangerous by and (June 11th, 2023) ► A very classical analysis of AI tools for generating code.
- 10X coders beware: Meta’s new AI model boosts coding and debugging for free — New "Code Llama" coding model is free for research and commercial use. by (August 25th, 2023) ► Facebook gives access to three of the four Code Llama models.
- NEW WizardCoder-34B - THE BEST CODING LLM by (August 27th, 2023) ► A short presentation of WizardLMTeam/WizardCoder-Python-34B-V1.0 in Google Collab.
- AI-assisted coding: Experiences and perspectives by , , , and (November 16th, 2023) ► Some experience feedback and reflection on the use of LLMs to assist in code writing.
- I Tried Every AI Coding Assistant↓ by (November 22nd, 2023) ► This comparison of Tabnine, ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, Bard, CodeWhisperer, Cody, and CodiumAI is poorly done.
- Three things GenAI will not change about software delivery by (November 29th, 2023) ► Generative AI will not change the fact that software development is not only coding, that it is a teamwork, and that we need to have some metrics.
- Programmer’s Apprentice Season 2: Future Directions in AI-assisted Coding • Erik Meijer • YOW! 2023 by (December 4th, 2023) ► As usual, has a provocative presentation, but this one has little worthwhile content, he describes only well-known things.
- Three types of AI-assisted programmers — What matters isn’t just whether you use it, but how. by (December 11th, 2023) ► Some advice on using code assistants: the less competent you are in coding, the more perilous it is to use them; if you know what you are doing, they may be helpful.
- Github Copilot Does NOT Like This... (100% Local Free VSCode CoPilot) by (February 11th, 2024) ► A demo of Continue, an AI assistant for VS Code that can use different chat models, but the examples shown here are definitely not convincing.
- Sorry DEVIN, Microsoft's AI SWE is coming for ya!!! by (March 18th, 2024) ► A bad presentation of "AutoDev: Automated AI-Driven Development", a Microsoft paper describing an agent able to edit files, run tests, execute Git commands…
- Will Devin AI Take Your Job? by (March 19th, 2024) ► Debunking Cognition’s marketing message.
- Building and testing C extensions for SQLite with ChatGPT Code Interpreter by (March 23rd, 2024) ► The title says it all.
- Why I'm no longer using Copilot by (March 30th, 2024) ► Some rather relevant problems with using code assistants.
- ↪Why I Quit Copilot | Prime Reacts by (April 6th, 2024) ► Some comments on the previous video.
- Developers with AI assistants need to follow the pair programming model — CodeGen is fast, but you need to be good. by (April 3rd, 2024) ► A long article just to say that AI tools are helpful to produce code, but you need to pilot them and to check what they generate.
- Refactoring with AI↑ by , , , and (April 18th, 2024) ► An interesting discussion about using AI code assistants for refactoring code, with less bullshit that the usual such communications.
- L'IA et qualité de code : Construire une synergie avec l’intelligence humaine↓ by (May 3rd, 2024) ► Trivialities about AI code generation.
- Oracle Code Assist: AI companion to boost developer velocity by (May 7th, 2024) ► Oracle is trying to catch up on AI code assistants, but it still has no product yet.
- Developers get by with a little help from AI: Stack Overflow Knows code assistant pulse survey results — We asked when and how often CodeGen tools fall short, what challenges developers face with these tools, and what they are doing with all of the free time these tools purport to offer. by (May 29th, 2024) ► A few stats about code assistants from StackOverflow survey.
- Trying out free-threaded Python on macOS by (July 12th, 2024) ► tested the GIL-free build with a buggy benchmark generated by Claude.ai.
- How I Use "AI" by (August 1st, 2024) ► gives some examples of how he uses LLMs. This may give ideas to the persons who do not use or have a limited usage of LLMs.
- ↪Pragmatic LLM usage with Nicholas Carlini (⧉) by , , , , , and (August 5th, 2024) ► This is a follow-up of the previous article. explains what he is experimenting with LLMs: decompiling code, quick `n dirty small programs… He regularly tries things that he thinks would not work to see if models have new improved capabilities.
- Devin AI Engineer killer Genie is here (kind of!)↓ by (August 12th, 2024) ► Yet another company claiming to have improved AI coding capabilities.
- Long Code Arena: How Well Can AI Models Understand Your Entire Project? by (August 19th, 2024) ► JetBrains proposes a set of benchmarks to evaluate how models perform on some tasks for a full project instead of a small piece of code as for the current benchmarks.
- Building a tool showing how Gemini Pro can return bounding boxes for objects in images by (August 26th, 2024) ► is using Gemini, Claude, and GPT to build a small application to compute and draw bounding boxes.
- Gemini Chat App by (August 27th, 2024) ► shares the logs of creating, with Claude 3.5 Sonnet, a prototype of a Web app to chat with Gemini. AI code generation is getting more or more useful.
- VSCode + Aider + Supermaven : STOP PAYING for CURSOR with this 100% FREE & Opensource Alternative by (September 9th, 2024) ► A presentation of setting up VS Code + Aider + Gemini 1.5 experimental models + Supermaven.
- AI tools for software engineers, but without the hype – with Simon Willison (co-creator of Django) — Ways to use LLMs efficiently, as a software engineer, common misconceptions about them, and tips/hacks to better interact with GenAI tools. The first episode of The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast (⧉) by and (September 25th, 2024) ► is yet in another podcast where he explains how he uses and experiments with generative AI.
- Little Paper Reviews & AutoCodeRover by (October 2nd, 2024) ► Some notes about AutoCodeRover: Autonomous Program Improvement, an article about yet another coding agent.
- AI-Powered Software Development From the Trenches • Henrik Kniberg • GOTO 2024 by (October 2nd, 2024) ► A presentation of using Claude for writing code and of Cursor, for those who do not know that yet.
- Everything I built with Claude Artifacts this week by (October 21st, 2024) ► is generating a lot of small tools using Claude’s artefacts. This is the list of these for last week.
- Generating documentation from tests using files-to-prompt and LLM by (November 5th, 2024) ► The title says it all.
- Microsoft's AI Toolkit for VS Code: This FREE Extension BEATS CURSOR! (w/ FREE GPT-4O!)↓ by (November 9th, 2024) ► A very light presentation of AI Toolkit Extension for Visual Studio Code.
- From Idea to AI: Building Applications with Generative AI↓ by (November 12th, 2024) ► If you were not asleep for the last two years, you already know all these very basic facts…
- Townie: This FULLY FREE AI Coder BEATS V0 & Bolt! (w/ Free Claude 3.5 Sonnet) by (November 16th, 2024) ► is "testing" Val Town’s Townie.
- LMSYS Copilot: This FREE COPILOT Alternative has CLAUDE 3.5 SONNET & GPT-4O FOR FREE!? by (November 17th, 2024) ► A presentation of Copilot Arena.
- Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to “write better code”? by (January 2nd, 2025) ► Experimenting with asking Claude 3.5 Sonnet over and over to improve its code, first, with a basic initial prompt and, then, with a properly specified prompt. Claude is indeed able to improve irs code.
- ↪Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to “write better code”? by (January 3rd, 2025) ► Why LLMs can improve their own code.
- How I program with LLMs by (January 6th, 2025) ► describes his (classical) use of LLMs and that he decided to contribute to yet another tool, sketch.dev, to automate interactions with them.
- Phi-4 + Bolt DIY + Cline & Aider : This 100% PRIVATE & LOCAL AI Coder is INSANE! (Beats Cursor!) by (January 13th, 2025) ► As indicated in the title: how to use Phi-4 in Cline, bolt.diy, and Aider.
- Le futur du développeur avec l'IA ? by (January 16th, 2025) ► A very classical opinion about the impact of AI on coding.
- Deepseek-R1 + RooCline & Aider + Free APIs : This CRAZY AI Coder is AMAZING! by (January 22nd, 2025) ► How to use Deepseek-R1 in Roo Cline and in Aider.
- My LLM codegen workflow atm by (February 16th, 2025) ► describes how he is working with LLMs. His workflows are quite advanced.
- Exploring Generative AI↑ by (February 18th, 2025) ► A, regularly updated, list of well-thought-out ideas on AI-assisted coding.
- Hallucinations in code are the least dangerous form of LLM mistakes by (March 2nd, 2025) ► explains that hallucinations are a minor problem since they are very easily detected. The real things to do to mitigate risks with LLM-generated code is to review the code and test it.
- Will the future of software development run on vibes? — Accepting AI-written code without understanding how it works is growing in popularity. by (March 6th, 2025) ► The subtitle says it all.
- Here’s how I use LLMs to help me write code by (March 11th, 2025) ► The title says it all.
- Not all AI-assisted programming is vibe coding (but vibe coding rocks) by (March 19th, 2025) ► Yet another occurrence of semantic diffusion.
- ↪Two publishers and three authors fail to understand what “vibe coding” means by (May 1st, 2025) ► The semantic diffusion goes on…
- ↪Vibes by (May 1st, 2025) ► More musing about the matter…
- Open R1: How to use OlympicCoder locally for coding by , , , , and (March 20th, 2025) ► How to configure LM Studio and Continue to run open-r1/OlympicCoder-7B locally.
- We need to talk about vibe coding by , , , and (April 2nd, 2025) ► Sensible comments on "vibe coding".
- My AI Coding Workflow + Free APIs: How I DO AI CODING! (RooCode, Gemini 2.5, T3 Stack, Requesty) by (April 11th, 2025) ► explains how he currently really uses AI.
- Critical Thinking In The Age Of AI-Generated Code — Learn how AI-generated code impacts maintainability, productivity, and quality. Explore code reviewing, testing strategies, and best practices for long-term success. by (April 14th, 2025) ► suggests some ways to ensure that AI-generated code is of correct quality, but these are simply the usual best practices, which should also be applied for human-written code.
- Guiding an LLM for Robust Java ByteBuffer Code by (April 17th, 2025) ► An example of piloting a LLM to generate code and to clean it up.
- ↪Building TMT Mirror Visualization with LLM: A Step-by-Step Journey by (April 30th, 2025) ► Using a LLM to generate code for a technology you do not know, but there is no information here except for the fact that prompting step by step works better.
- ↪Building Custom Tooling with LLMs — A Case Study in Extending PlantUML by (May 14th, 2025) ► An example of using Cursor with Claude Sonnet 3.7 to write and clean up the code of a PlantUML extension.
- AMD Takes Holistic Approach to AI Coding Copilots — The chip maker is using AI throughout the software development lifecycle by (April 22nd, 2025) ► A presentation of AMD strategy for AI. But these are generalities, mostly the fact that AI is not only code completion.
- Qwen3 Leads the Pack: Evaluating how Local LLMs tackle First Year CS OCaml exercises by (May 6th, 2025) ► Evaluating the performance of some open-weight model on Cambridge’s first year Computer Science OCaml exercises.
- Coding Assistants Threaten the Software Supply Chain by and (May 13th, 2025) ► Coding agents introduce new security risks.
- Accelerating mainframe modernization using generative AI by , , , and (May 15th, 2025) ► Thoughtworks and Mechanical Orchard are creating a partnership to convert mainframe applications to a modern technical stack. They describe how they use generative AI for these migrations.
- How Smart Devs Use AI Tools Every Day↓ by (May 21st, 2025) ► What is the purpose of this video? Any decent developer should already know about all these AI features.
- AI-assisted coding for teams that can't get away with vibes by (May 29th, 2025) ► Yet some advice on using AI for coding. I agree with them.
- Peer-Programming in Modern OCaml with ChatGPT and Gemini by (June 2nd, 2025) ► describes his experience with starting to use LLMs to write an OCaml program.
- Phoenix.new is Fly’s entry into the prompt-driven app development space by (June 23rd, 2025) ► Yet another company proposing a coding agent. seems positively impressed.
- LLMs bring new nature of abstraction by (June 24th, 2025) ► considers that LLM code generation is a major change in software development, as has been migrating from assembler to high-level programming languages, and this is the first time we have to deal with on-determinism.
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GitHub Copilot
- Research: quantifying GitHub Copilot’s impact on developer productivity and happiness — When the GitHub Copilot Technical Preview launched just over one year ago, we wanted to know one thing: Is this tool helping developers? The GitHub Next team conducted research using a combination of surveys and experiments, which led us to expected and unexpected answers. by (September 7th, 2022) ► A survey and an experiment demonstrating that developers using GitHub Copilot deliver faster, are more focused, and happier. But what about code quality?
- Responsible AI pair programming with GitHub Copilot — GitHub Copilot boosts developer productivity, but using it responsibly still requires good developer and DevSecOps practices. by (February 22nd, 2023) ► The subtitle says it all.
- Taking Copilot to difficult terrain by (June 9th, 2023) ► A rather positive test of using GitHub Copilot to write some Rust unit tests.
- Smarter, more efficient coding: GitHub Copilot goes beyond Codex with improved AI model — We’re thrilled to announce two major updates to GitHub Copilot code Completion’s capabilities that will help developers work even more efficiently and effectively. by (July 28th, 2023) ► Some advertisement for GitHub Copilot.
- GitHub Copilot just got exponentially smarter by (December 4th, 2023) ► A description of GitHub Copilot new features.
- Bringing developer choice to Copilot with Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro, and OpenAI’s o1-preview — At GitHub Universe, we announced Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro, and OpenAI’s o1-preview and o1-mini are coming to GitHub Copilot—bringing a new level of choice to every developer. by (October 29th, 2024) ► GitHub Copilot adds the support of Sonnet 3.5, Gemini 1.5 Pro, GPT o1-preview, and GPT o1-mini.
- How to generate unit tests with GitHub Copilot: Tips and examples — Learn how to generate unit tests with GitHub Copilot and get specific examples, a tutorial, and best practices. by (December 5th, 2024) ► Some guidance for generating unit tests, but the Pÿthon and JavaScript examples are ridiculously simple.
- Announcing 150M developers and a new free tier for GitHub Copilot in VS Code — Come and join 150M developers on GitHub that can now code with Copilot for free in VS Code. by (December 18th, 2024) ► GitHub introduces a free Copilot tier.
- A new free tier for GitHub Copilot in VS Code by (December 18th, 2024) ► The same information.
- Github's FREE Copilot VSCode: This Is THE BEST FREE AI Editor that Beats CURSOR, V0 & Bolt! by (December 19th, 2024) ► An introduction to GitHub Copilot.
- Inside the research: How GitHub Copilot impacts the nature of work for open source maintainers — An interview with economic researchers analyzing the causal effect of GitHub Copilot on how open source maintainers work. by (December 20th, 2024) ► This article contains little information about the findings of and on analysing the impact of GitHub Copilot on developers, it is mostly about the analysis method and the author themselves.
- GitHub Copilot: The agent awakens — Introducing agent mode for GitHub Copilot in VS Code, announcing the general availability of Copilot Edits, and providing a first look at our SWE agent. by (February 6th, 2025) ► The subtitle says it all.
- New GitHub Copilot code completion model: GPT-4o Copilot (February 18th, 2025) ► GitHub Copilot has a new model: GPT-4o Copilot, a fine-tuned GPT-4o mini. But this smells bullshit, e.g. they do not give the exact number of languages on which it has been trained.
- Copilot agent mode new features in Visual Studio Code | GitHub Checkout by and (March 4th, 2025) ► A demo Copilot’s agent mode, Microsoft is trying to catch up with Cursor, Codeium…
- Which AI model should I use with GitHub Copilot? — Ever wondered which AI model is the best fit for your GitHub Copilot project? Here are some things to consider. by (April 17th, 2025) ► It seems that the author wants to name all models, so his advice is really unclear.
- The AI-powered DevOps revolution: Redefining developer collaboration — Collaboration is crucial to successful software delivery. Let’s dive into how AI can help your development teams decrease their time to delivery, and foster better communication and collaboration using GitHub Copilot. by (May 1st, 2025) ► Yet another basic presentation of GitHub Copilot. This one is focused onn writing documentation and commit messages, performing code reviews, and solving merge conflicts.
- How to create issues and pull requests in record time on GitHub — Learn how to spin up a GitHub Issue, hand it to Copilot, and get a draft pull request in the same workflow you already know. by (June 5th, 2025) ► It is now possible to ask Copilot to write an issue… and to assign if to Copilot.
- Assigning and completing issues with coding agent in GitHub Copilot — Have you tried the new coding agent in GitHub Copilot? Here’s how developers are using it to work more efficiently. by (June 6th, 2025) ► A presentation of GitHub’s Coding Agent.
- GitHub Copilot Spaces: Bring the right context to every suggestion — Learn how to build your first space in minutes and customize Copilot to match your team’s unique coding style and workflows. by (June 18th, 2025) ► A presentation of GitHub Copilot Spaces: the definition of the context and the instructions provided to a model.
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Windsurf (formerly Codeium)
- Using Code Syntax Parsing for Generative AI by and (March 15th, 2023) ► Codeium has created and open-sourced a tool to query syntax tree built with Tree-sitter.
- Be Careful Where you Send Your Code🚫 by (March 30th, 2023) ► If you want to keep your code private, deploy your tools on premise. This is why Codeium proposes an Enterprise offering.
- Why You Should Not Trust All the Numbers You See by , , and (October 3rd, 2023) ► A critic of the metrics provided by Codeium’s competitors and how Codeium evaluates its product.
- Codeium Brings VS Codium AI Powers (November 3rd, 2023) ► Codeium plugins are now available in the OpenVSX registry.
- Codeium Command (November 13th, 2023) ► Codeium adds a mechanism to explicitly ask to generate code.
- Introducing Codeium Live: Free, Forever Up-to-Date In-Browser Chat by (November 16th, 2023) ► A chat answering questions on recent versions of some libraries.
- GitHub Copilot’s Security Filters Don’t Work (November 22nd, 2023) ► Demonstrating that GitHub Copilot’s claims to filter out unsafe code are bullshit.
- Code Suggestion Attribution (December 6th, 2023) ► A description of how Codeium handles code licences: filter out code that is explicitly non-permissively licensed from training data, attribution of generated code…
- Prototype Capabilities by and (December 12th, 2023) ► A description on how Codeium expects to manage experimental features.
- What We Think of 2023 Q4 AI News (December 18th, 2023) ► Some comments on GitHub Copilot announcements and its dependency to OpenAI, and further experimentation on the poor efficacy of CodeWhisperer.
- The Effect of Generative AI on the Human-Tool Interface by (December 19th, 2023) ► The vision of Codeium of how Generative AI helps the user and how this vision shapes the human-tool interface they implement.
- Streamlining AI Code Chat with @ Mentions by (January 4th, 2024) ► @ Mentions have been improved, but a real documentation of that feature would be helpful.
- Termium: Codeium in the Terminal (January 10th, 2024) ► The title says it all.
- MongoDB x Codeium (January 17th, 2024) ► Codeium models have been trained on MongoDB APIs and syntax.
- Latency, the Ultimate Gen AI Constraint↑ by , , , and (January 18th, 2024) ► Some interesting optimisations implemented by Codeium to reduce latency.
- How Generative AI is Accelerating Software Development w/ Codeium Co-Founder | Technovation 842 by and (February 1st, 2024) ► An interesting interview of , the CEO of Codeium.
- Remote Indexing and Multi-repository Context Awareness by , , , and (February 20th, 2024) ► The importance of being able to use whole repositories to find the right context to answer a question or to generate autocompletion, and the new possibility to index these repositories.
- Codeium Passes One Million Downloads (February 28th, 2024) ► The title says it all.
- Context Pinning by , , and (March 6th, 2024) ► It is now possible, in VS Code, to pin a context so get more relevant autocompletions or chat answers.
- Better Chat than ChatGPT (August 1st, 2024) ► A description of the enhancements in the last Codeium release.
- Dream Bigger (August 13th, 2024) ► A long description of Codeium’s strategy and new products: Cortex/Cascade performs tasks on whole projects by defining a plan and performing each step (all this being modifiable by a human), Forge assists code reviews, and Guidelines for customising Codeium’s tools (currently Forge) for a company specific needs.
- Smart Paste: Effortless Code Translation (August 21st, 2024) ► Copy in one a language, paste in another one.
- Series C Announcement (August 31st, 2024) ► Codeium is still performing very well.
- Pro Tier (September 18th, 2024) ► Codeium is introducing a paying tier for individual users.
- Supercomplete by , , and (October 14th, 2024) ► A more powerful autocomplete that, as Cursor, can insert at other places than the cursor position.
- The Art of Analytics (October 23rd, 2024) ► A usual, Codeium’s discourse on metrics and analytics is much more evaluable than the bullshit of GitHub ou GitLab.
- Plans and Pricing Updates (December 6th, 2024) ► Codeium is victim of its success: the Pro Tier gets more expensive, but includes more actions.
- Why Developers Trust Windsurf to Write 90% of Their Code (with Anthropic)↑ (April 5th, 2025) ► An interesting presentation of Windsurf strategy with little marketing bullshit (especially compared to the current bullshit AI-related tsunami).
- Building Windsurf with Varun Mohan — Varun Mohan, CEO of Windsurf, shares how building an AI-native IDE is reshaping software development—from optimizing LLM latency to enabling non-engineers to ship code. (⧉) by and (May 7th, 2025) ► Some information about Windsurf, the company and the IDE, and some musing on the impact of AI on developers.
- Self-Hosted Deployment Maintenance Mode (May 12th, 2025) ► Windsurf stops its self-hosted offering and replaces it with new single-tenant hosted offering.
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Windsurf
- Windsurf Launch (November 13th, 2024) ► Codeium is proposing it owns IDE, yet another VS Code fork.
- Codeium's Windsurf : This NEW & FULLY FREE AI Editor BEATS CURSOR! by (November 14th, 2024) ► is discovering Codeium…
- Windsurf Editor TUTORIAL // Better than Cursor? (yes) by (November 20th, 2024) ► A presentation of Windsurf by someone who discovered it recently.
- Windsurf (Upgraded) : This is The BEST AI Editor Right Now! (NEW Image Upload, Keybindings & More!)↓ by (December 1st, 2024) ► There is almost no new information in this video, except for the possibility to add images in the prompt.
- Windsurf Wave 1 (December 11th, 2024) ► Windsurf 1.1 adds the possibility of defining global and workspace rules, and to customise terminal commands not requiring approval.
- Innovation, not Productivity: Why we Built Windsurf (December 19th, 2024) ► Codeium explains that AI code assistants are not only about developer productivity: more persons can produce applications while not being developers, people can work on code bases they do not master…
- Windsurf Wave 2 (January 17th, 2025) ► Web search, automated memories, terminal integration, and problem tab integration.
- ↪Windsurf Wave 2 Update: Web Search, Autogenerated Memories, and More by (January 17th, 2025) ► The corresponding video.
- Turn Blog Post Tutorials into Full-Stack Applications Automatically - Windsurf Editor (January 23rd, 2025) ► A demo of generating code from a blog post.
- Save Time and Flow Action Credits with Cascade Autogenerated Memories - Windsurf Editor by (January 26th, 2025) ► Cascade is now able to decide by itself to add data in its memory. But it is unclear when it does so. I guess you will have some feelings about its behaviour by using it.
- Spend Less Time Approving with Automated Command - Windsurf Editor↓ by (January 28th, 2025) ► This demo of automated command, where you can allow Cascade to execute safe commands without asking for approval, is unclear.
- Windsurf Now Supports OpenAI's o3-mini! by (January 31st, 2025) ► The title says it all.
- DeepSeek R1 and OpenAI o3-mini now available in Windsurf (January 31st, 2025) ► The title says it all.
- Windsurf Next Launch (February 5th, 2025) ► Codeium now provides a beta version of Windsurf.
- Windsurf Wave 3 Updates: Tab to Jump, MCP, Custom App Icons, Turbo Mode & More by , , , and (February 13th, 2025) ► The title says it all.
- Windsurf Wave 3 (February 13th, 2025) ► The same.
- A Beginner's Guide to using MCP in Windsurf! by (February 18th, 2025) ► An explanation on how to use MCP.
- Windsurf Wave 4 Updates: Preview, Tab to Import, Suggested Actions & More (March 5th, 2025) ► Preview, tab-to-import, suggested actions, auto-fixing lint violations, easier MCP configuration, referral program, drag ’n drop files, improved tool support in Sonnet 3.7…
- Windsurf Wave 4 (March 5th, 2025) ► The same.
- Windsurf Previews: Streamline UI Iteration & Debugging by (March 12th, 2025) ► Preview a Web App in Windsurf so an HTML element can be added to the context and Windsurf can access the error messages in the console to debug the App.
- Windsurf Wave 5 (March 14th, 2025) ► Codeium merges the tab features (complete, super-complete, jump, import) into a single feature having a larger context: text editor, terminal, dialog, and clipboard.
- Windsurf Wave 5: Windsurf Tab by (March 18th, 2025) ► The same.
- Windsurf Wave 6 (April 2nd, 2025) ► One-click deployment on Netlify, commit message generation, easier navigation of the chat history, improved long chats, more information pushed in the Tab context…
- Windsurf Wave 6 Update: Deploy, Commit Message Generation, Jupyter Notebook Support And More (April 2nd, 2025) ► The same.
- Windsurf Wave 7 (April 9th, 2025) ► Cascade is now integrated in JetBrains IDEs.
- Windsurf Wave 7: Cascade On Jetbrains by (April 9th, 2025) ► The same.
- OpenAI's GPT-4.1 Available On Windsurf! by (April 14th, 2025) ► Windsurf integrates GPT 4.1 and gives it for free for one week.
- Day 1 of Windsurf Wave 8: Windsurf Reviews, Knowledge Base, Conversation Sharing & More (May 6th, 2025) ► Code reviews, conversation sharing, interrogating Google Docs, deploying in Netlify team, and analytics.
- ↪Day 2 of Windsurf Wave 8: Custom Workflows, Multiple Cascades, File-Based Rules & More (May 7th, 2025) ► Custom workflows, granular rules files, simultaneous cascades, and improved MCP support.
- ↪Day 3 of Windsurf Wave 8: JetBrains & UX Updates (May 8th, 2025) ► UX improvements: model selector, edit proposed terminal command, opening conversations switches to the corresponding workspace, improved commit messages…
- Windsurf Wave 9: Introducing SWE-1, Our Frontier Models by (May 15th, 2025) ► Windsurf proposes a new family of models for handling the whole software engineering process.
- SWE-1: Our First Frontier Models (May 15th, 2025) ► More information about the models and Windsurf’s strategy.
- An Inflection Point for U.S. Government (May 29th, 2025) ► Windsurf explains what they are the best option for federal agencies and regulated industries.
- Statement on Anthropic Model Availability (June 3rd, 2025) ► Windsurf has some problems with Anthropic, I guess this is related to being bought by OpenAI.
- Windsurf Wave 10 – Day 1: Planning Mode by (June 10th, 2025) ► Cascade is now able to define and to maintain a plan of the tasks to be done.
- ↪Wave 10: Planning Mode (June 10th, 2025) ► A much more detailed and informative description of Windsurf’s vision on supporting long-term plan.
- ↪Windsurf Wave 10 – Day 2: Windsurf Browser by (June 11th, 2025) ► Windsurf now provides a Browser in order to provide context to Cascade more easily.
- ↪Wave 10: The Windsurf Browser (June 11th, 2025) ► Windsurf explains why they now deliver their own Chrome fork.
- ↪Windsurf Wave 10 - Day 3: Enterprise + UX Updates by and (June 13th, 2025) ► Update of Percentage of Code Written, European cluster, coloured code suggestion, access to past conversation from the curent one, file-based icons, interaction with suggested command terminals, and removal of legacy mode.
- ↪Wave 10: Other Announcements (June 12th, 2025) ► The same.
- Percentage of Code Written (June 13th, 2025) ► Some thoughts about the advantages and caveats of the PCW metric.
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StarCoder
- StarCoder: A State-of-the-Art LLM for Code by and (May 4th, 2023) ► A family of open-source models and some of their benchmark results.
- StarCoder2 and The Stack v2 by , , , and (February 28th, 2024) ► A new version trained on a larger dataset.
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Aider
- Aider by (July 31st, 2024) ► A very short presentation of Aider.
- Aider (Upgraded) + FREE Claude / ChatGPT + Files To Prompt: This is the BEST FREE Way for AI Coding! by (November 13th, 2024) ► Aider can now integrate edits which are copied/pasted from models accessible as a chat in the Browser.
- Aider (Upgraded) : New Editor Mode, New Commands, Qwen-2.5 Coder Support, O1 Streaming & Much More! by (November 21st, 2024) ► New Aider features since 0.63.0.
- Aider (New Upgrades) + R1 / Sonnet Mode + Free APIs: This is THE SOTA FREE AI Coder Right Now! by (January 27th, 2025) ► Comments to give instructions and ask questions to the AI that Aider will handle when the file is saved, using Return in multiline input, and experimenting with DeepSeek-R1 as the architect and Claude Sonnet 3.5 as the editor.
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Cursor
- Cursor AI Tutorial for Beginners (How I Code 159% Faster) by (August 16th, 2024) ► A presentation of cursor by someone who knows a little about coding (but the guy does not seem to use Git, he painfully reverts failed tries).
- The ONE Thing You need to Code in 2024!!! 💥Andrej Karpathy's favorite AI tool 💥 by (August 24th, 2024) ► is just stating that there is currently a lot of buzz about Cursor.
- Coding with Cursor - I built a Chrome Extension from Scratch↓ by (August 25th, 2024) ► A demo, but is not a developer.
- #447 – Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI (⧉) by , , , , and (October 6th, 2024) ► This interview of the Cursor team is sometimes highly technical and sometimes quite naive.
- Cursor's NEW *Agent* Composer: The WORST Coding AGENT that I HAVE EVER SEEN (Beats Cline & Cascade?) by (November 25th, 2024) ► continues to dislike and bash Cursor.
- Devenez un développeur augmenté avec Cursor : installation, configuration et astuces pour tirer le meilleur de l’éditeur IA en 2025 by (April 11th, 2025) ► A short introduction to cursor.
- Company apologizes after AI support agent invents policy that causes user uproar — Frustrated software developer believed AI-generated message came from human support rep. by (April 18th, 2025) ► Cursor did not indicate that support emails were generated by AI, so people get upset when this one halucinated a non-existing "single device" policy.
- Cursor: Security by (May 11th, 2025) ► Some information extracted from Cursor’s security statement.
- Cursor CEO: Going Beyond Code, Superintelligent AI Agents, And Why Taste Still Matters by and (June 11th, 2025) ► Ths story of Cursor.
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DeepSeek Coder
- This AI CODING LLM Nobody's talking about!!!↓ by (November 6th, 2023) ► A presentation of DeepSeek Coder: the guy reads the doc and performs three simple tries.
- DeepSeek Coder V2 - Quick Look! by (July 5th, 2024) ► A basic presentation of deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Instruct.
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Qwen
- Qwen-2.5 Coder (32B) + Cline & Aider + Free API : This NEW AI Coding Model BEATS Claude 3.5 Sonnet!? by (November 12th, 2024) ► As said by the title, tests Qwen-2.5 Coder, hosted by Hyperbolic or by Fireworks AI, with Cline and Aider. In all cases, it is a failure.
- Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is an LLM that can code well that runs on my Mac by (November 12th, 2024) ► Some much more positive feedback.
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Cline
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ClaudeDev (Upgraded) : The BEST Coding Agent just got EVEN BETTER! (New Commands, Web Parser, etc.) by (September 22nd, 2024) ►
@commands have been added in 0.18. - Dans les rouages de Cline (ex Claude-dev): un Agent pour assister à coder by (October 8th, 2024) ► A presentation of the inner working of Claude Dev.
- Cline (Upgraded) : This UPDATE Makes this AI Coder SELF EVOLVING & INSANE! (Beats Cursor, V0, Bolt) by (December 16th, 2024) ► Cline now supports Model Context Protocol and can create its own tools.
- Cline 3.0 (Upgraded): This is the ULTIMATE AUTONOMOUS AI CODER that we need! (Auto mode, Rules, etc) by (December 21st, 2024) ► Cline 3.0 adds the possibility to perform some tasks and requests without approval.
- Cline 3.1 (Upgraded) : This NEW Cline Upgrade IS AMAZING! (Checkpoints, Deepseek-V3 Support & More!) by (January 8th, 2025) ► the new features are DeepSeek support and checkpoints.
- Cline 3.4 : This AI Coder just got MCP Marketplace, Diagram Support & More!↓ by (February 22nd, 2025) ► The usual basic reading of the release note and a completely botched demo.
- Cline (Upgraded) + Free APIs & Crazy MCPs: I MIGHT SWITCH BACK TO CLINE! by (April 22nd, 2025) ► Reading the release notes from 3.8.5 to 3.13.0.
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ClaudeDev (Upgraded) : The BEST Coding Agent just got EVEN BETTER! (New Commands, Web Parser, etc.) by (September 22nd, 2024) ►
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Project IDX
- Project IDX + ClaudeDev + Aider : This is the BEST CLOUD AI Editor by GOOGLE beats Cursor, Bolt & V0↓ by (October 9th, 2024) ► A very basic presentation of using Project IDX and integrating ClaudeDev and Aider in it. is generating a different program with each tool intead of showing how to use them on the same code base.
- Google's Project IDX (Agent Mode) : This FREE AI Editor BEATS Cursor, V0 & BOLT! by (November 27th, 2024) ► A usual video. This one provides little more information about Project IDX.
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Bolt
- Better Bolt + FREE Mistral & Github API : STOP PAYING for V0 & BOLT with this FULLY FREE Alternative by (November 2nd, 2024) ► A Bolt fork that supports any LLM, in particular some free ones.
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OpenHands (formerly OpenDevin)
- OpenHands : This OPENSOURCE AI Coder BEATS CLINE, AIDER & CURSOR!? by (November 11th, 2024) ► OpenHands, formerly known as OpenDevin, seems to be rather bad…
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Lovable (formerly GPT Engineer)
- GPT Engineer: Things Are Starting to Get Weird↓ by (June 30th, 2023) ► Yet another shitty analysis of the impact of AI, for example, the guy tries to generate a simple program which appears to not be working and he concludes that AI will be able to do a better job in a near future, he considers that junior developers write simple code…
- ↪Is GPT Engineer Actually Useful? 🤨↓ by (September 22nd, 2023) ► A very basic try of GPT Engineer.
- Lovable : This FREE AI Coder BEATS V0 & Bolt? (Generate Full Stack Apps!)↓ by (December 2nd, 2024) ► A usual video: quick ’n dirty presentation of Lovable.
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Llama Coder
- Llama DeepSeek Coder V2 : This FULLY FREE Coder BEATS V0 & BOLT! by (January 9th, 2025) ► A presentation of Together’s Llama Coder.
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Gemini Code Assist
- Google’s free Gemini Code Assist arrives with sky-high usage limits — Gemini Code Assist lets you do 90 times more than competing tools. by (February 25th, 2025) ► The title says it all.
- Google's Gemini Code Assist (Fully FREE): RIP Copilot & Cursor! This NEW AI Coder by Google is COOL! by (February 26th, 2025) ► The usual quick ’n dirty ’s demo.
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Codex
- Codex agent internet access by (June 3rd, 2025) ► Codex can access Internet. OpenAI limits the exfiltration risk by only allowing GET, HEAD, and OPTIONS, and using a domain white list.
- Autonomous coding agents: A Codex example by (June 4th, 2025) ► A detailed log of experimenting with Codex for a simple code change.