🧑💻 Coding assistants
Autocomplete, chat, and code review inside the editor you already use.
GitHub Copilot
AI pair programmer in VS Code, JetBrains, and GitHub itself.
Plugs into the editor and repo you already use. Covers completions, chat, and PR review in one subscription.
BEST FOR: TEAMS ALREADY ON GITHUBFree plan · paid tiers
Gemini Code Assist
Google's coding assistant for VS Code, JetBrains, and GitHub.
Generous free tier for individuals, with a big context window for large files.
BEST FOR: FREE SOLO USEFree for individuals · business plans
JetBrains AI Assistant
AI built into IntelliJ, PyCharm, WebStorm, and the rest.
Knows the IDE's project model, refactors, and inspections. No plugin juggling.
BEST FOR: JETBRAINS USERSCheck site
New in coding assistants this week
Breken: "Production before production." Breken rebuilds your whole app on its own machines, fakes the outside services inside a sealed sandbox, and fast-forwards time at 4,000x so real-looking accounts and pending jobs pile up. Then it changes one thing at a time (a retry, a lost response, a clock jump, a deploy mid-job) and only reports failures that reproduce every time, each with the state, a trace, and a draft fix PR. On its own ESCAPES benchmark it caught 76 of 235 bugs that real users later hit, about twice what Claude Code found, with fewer false alarms (vendor-run numbers). Sign in with GitHub; usage is prepaid from a $25 top-up. source ↗
Beacon: An open-source, local-first memory layer for coding agents. It captures full sessions from Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, OpenCode, Cline, and 20+ other harnesses, spots the fixes and workflows worth keeping, and turns the ones you approve into Agent Skills that future agents load through MCP or a skills folder. source ↗
Beam.win: A Mac app that pulls individual windows (terminal, browser, any app) off one Mac and onto another as real windows, each with its own Dock icon and a spot in ⌘Tab. It handles headless Mac minis, it's encrypted Mac to Mac, and it works across cities with Tailscale. Sharing is free, and all-day use is a paid plan. source ↗
Sphinx: A free, open-source Git hook that pauses your push and quizzes you on what the agent-written diff actually does, like what happens when a webhook retries. Answer right and the push goes through. Works with Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, OpenCode, or plain Git. source ↗
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