AI tools to write code faster

Claude Code

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Same family: Claude

People comfortable with code who want AI to make big changes to software for them.

Cursor

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Programmers who want AI help inside a familiar code editor.

OpenCode 2.0

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Programmers who want a free AI coding helper.

Programmers who want code suggestions in the tools they already use.

LangChain

Automation & AI Helpers

Programmers building their own AI apps.

OpenAI API

For Developers

Programmers adding ChatGPT-style AI to their own apps.

Replit

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Apps that need to store data, with one-click publishing.

Lets programmers use Claude to mod PC games.

A free kit for programmers to build AI helpers.

A small Mac and iPhone app that shows what your AI coding tools are doing. For programmers.

A Mac menu-bar app for programmers to switch which AI model their coding tools use.

A scoreboard that compares AI search models. For programmers.

Google EmbeddingGemma 2

For Developers

Programmers adding search across text, photos, and video to their apps.

HN.watch

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Every Hacker News post turned into a short video, if you'd rather watch than read.

Memory for AI assistants that developers build. It lets them remember each user and learn from past mistakes instead of repeating them. Version 1.0 came out Oct 13.

A plugin for the DeepSeek Harness coding tool that gives free access to models like DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and Kimi K3, with no sign-up.

A free code editor that helps programmers plan software before writing it.

A deep technical guide to training huge AI models on big clusters of graphics chips.

A way to make diagrams by writing simple text, where you decide what goes where.

Free code for running your own AI news site. It finds trending topics and writes a daily report by itself. You pick the sources. Needs a programmer to set up.

An experimental AI model that keeps learning, trained on a normal gaming graphics card.

A trick for programmers: ChatGPT does the planning, and OpenAI's Codex coding tool does the actual work.

A guide from Hugging Face on how they build AI models. For engineers.

A free project that uses AI to design Lego builds. Needs some setup to run.

JevBench

For Developers

Tests for AI decision models. Researchers only.

Decides which AI helper in a team should handle a task, or when to pass it on. Plumbing for developers.

A chart showing how up to date 20 popular AI models are, and when each one's knowledge stops.

A playful gallery comparing how different AIs draw a pelican riding a bicycle. A popular informal test.

Gives AI coding helpers a long-term memory, stored as simple notes on your computer. One for programmers.

Tiny AI Arena

For Developers

Watch AI bots compete against each other in little games.

Pi pod

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Runs the Pi coding helper safely on your own server.

Show it a video you love and it makes a new one in the same style. You'll run it through Claude Code or Codex, so some tech comfort helps.

A quick-reacting AI model built to use a computer like a person would.

Gives voice assistants a memory for both facts and feelings. Building blocks for developers, not an app.

Teaches AI coding tools to build fancy websites that animate as you scroll.

Find code by describing what it does. For programmers.

A help forum for a Hugging Face developer feature.

Figures out where a photo was taken using maps, skylines and satellite images, and shows how it got there. Works inside AI coding tools.

Makes AI-written text sound less like AI, for fiction and professional writing. An add-on for AI coding tools.

43 film styles for making short films with Claude, with no video AI needed. Everything is drawn in code.

A list of projects built on Jev, an AI model that makes yes/no-style decisions.

Plumbing that lets developers build real-time voice chat into their apps.

Doom or Bloom

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A quick quiz that shows where you land between 'AI will ruin everything' and 'AI will fix everything'.

Offrun

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Manage all your AI coding helpers in one place.

A pretend company made of AI 'departments' (legal, finance, HR and more), each with its own skills. Runs inside Claude Code or ChatGPT.

A big library of tested prompts for the Seedance video AI, with 600+ real examples and 25 copy-and-paste templates. Useful even if you don't code.

A gallery for browsing and comparing community-made image styles and models.

Agent.reviews

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A review site where AI helpers rate the tools they use. Odd, and kind of interesting.