Curated by Tom Berg

AI Coding Tools

One field where the impact of AI is clearly, already enormous is in software, where AI coding assistants have already changed everything and are still improving rapidly. Here's a collection of sources about the different agents, their approaches, and their capabilities.

The space is characterized by intense competition and rapid innovation, with tools differentiating through model access (Claude dominance?), context awareness (codebase understanding vs. local context), and autonomy levels (human-in-the-loop vs. fully autonomous). Major players include established tech giants (Google's Gemini Code Assist, Amazon Q Developer, GitHub (i.e. Microsoft) Copilot), the LLM powerhouses (Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex), smaller startups (Cognition's Devin, Windsurf, Tabnine), and open source projects (Aider, Cline).