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Show HN: My Attempt to Organize the World of AI Dev Tools

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I've been exploring the (not so=) amazing potential of AI in coding and have compiled a list of tools. From AI-powered IDEs to code generators, this resource is my contribution to the community.

I'm still on the fence about including txt2sql projects, as their functionality seems too basic to me.

And I'm personally maintaining this, so your feedback is wellcome.

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Feature requests:

- Origin country listed for all tools, especially closed source.

- Information whether a tool can work offline and with a local model or does it rely on an external server.

To add one:

- Funding model: VC, bootstrapped, or non-profit OSS?

Thank you for the feedback! I fixed the CSS, reduced the amount of bg blur, added the 'Files to Prompt' category, and many of the mentioned projects. I also added a mention of Chatbot Arena as a place where you can always see which model better for now.

I'm not interested in searching for the Origin country (I'm sure that in 90% of cases it will be the USA, then China) and Funding model, as I'm more into programming and I'm interested in the usefulness and stability of the tools. If someone does such OSINT and sends me the information, then of course I will add it.

If you decide to add a utilities section, please consider FileKitty.

https://github.com/banagale/FileKitty

Despite all the hoopla of “project knowledge” and supposed codebase-wide context, I still find reasoning models do their best when directly provided with files relevant to a problem and nothing more.

I plan to add a tree feature and restore some other features I had in prior versions.

There are probably other tools that don’t require completion API requested but assist in AI enhanced dev workflows.

I actually hate using the AIs on third party platforms/wrappers because you have no idea what garbage they are putting in the system prompt and they have a strong incentive to minimize costs on LLM tokens. The difference with the quality I get just dumping all relevant context into the biggest SOTA model with reasoning tokens maxed out is massive.

Its to the point where if Cursor gets stuck on something I will just tell it to give me a recap of the details of the issue and suggest relevant files and then paste that into the Anthropic Console with thinking tokens set to max.

It doesn't mention a new category: when people generate code FROM unit-tests

For example:

https://claudio.uk/posts/unvibe.html

It's not very well organized.

Why not have a column for which LLMs they give for free, with limits. A column for unique features. A column for pricing.

Right now it's just a wall of text I have to read.

Core contributor of RA.Aid here. We are up to 15 total contributors now and are aiming to be one of the top completely FOSS coding agents.

Cool to see we're on your list!

Curious to hear feedback on it!

Also, maybe I'm just not looking hard enough, but I can't find an RSS feed for the changelog of Cursor.

If projects have code on GitHub, it's easy to follow their updates, but if they are closed projects that post changelogs on their website, it's difficult for me to find an RSS feed. Usually, in the site code (like with Cursor), the feed leads only to blog updates.

In general you can use tools like https://lighthouseapp.io/tools/feed-finder to check for RSS feeds. It also didn't find a changelog feed though, the only one it finds is RSS and Atom feeds for the blog: https://cursor.com/rss.xml

They don't have one, I ended up just using distill.io to monitor the page for changes.

Thanks for putting this together!

Have you also looked at mcp?

https://modelcontextprotocol.io/introduction

https://github.com/appcypher/awesome-mcp-servers

mcp.run glams.ai smithery.ai skeet.build (disclaimer: I built this one)

Oh yeah, I've seen MCP popping up everywhere in AI themes. I haven't tried it out yet, but I've got a few tutorials (for Cursor and Cline) lined up. I'm keen to learn how it works and figure out if it's a good fit for us.

Missing a few. Check out mine visualized in 2D quardants:

https://paradite.github.io/ai-coding/

Also there are a lot of cli tools in this space:

https://prompt.16x.engineer/cli-tools

So much paid stuff... and so many questions... mostly though what are the best "Free AI Stack" for various uses?

I don't mind copy-pasting stuff, especially when there's that cool tool to copy paste entire-directories and usually only work with one script at a time.

Currently been using VS Code and copy-pasting to ChatGPT (others seem to have much conversation limits, output limits, weak knowledge base, etc.). Was even thinking of buying CoPilot $10 tier but it has terrible (response length limits)[https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-copilot-release/issues/3...].

> https://paradite.github.io/ai-coding/

What ever happened to devin? It was so super hyped ..

I actually tried it a few months ago and I still using it (mainly for testing its capabilities), despite it not performing up to my standards.

I wrote my first impressions of Devin here: https://thegroundtruth.substack.com/p/devin-first-impression...

Great work - I've been doing something similar, creating a smaller, more curated list here:

https://github.com/ColinEberhardt/awesome-ai-developer-tools

Categorising these tools is quite challenging!

I completely agree that we don't have well-established terms for categorizing all these tools. I really like your visualization by year of appearance.

How about a table of contents, so at least I can see the categories you used? Also, I assume your monitor is much wider than mine - the table gets so cramped up...

Love it - I use a mix of Claude Code and Cursor agentic mode the most locally from this list.

I'll (biasedly) throw in "Diamond" - https://diamond.graphite.dev/, and in general, AI code review tools as a whole category :)

If you expand into tools for developing AI models, check out Kiln: https://github.com/Kiln-AI/Kiln

It includes synthetic data generation, fine-tuning and evals to help build your own models.

The scroll performance on your site is lagging quite heavily on my computer. Seems to be all the nearly-invisible backdrop blurs, because when I zap those from the stylesheets it perks right up. Not all the way up, but the majority of the way up.

Yes, there is a semi-transparent background overlay. It works fine on my devices, but I will definitely investigate this issue and optimize the CSS.

The performance and cost comparisons at https://artificialanalysis.ai/text-to-speech linked elsewhere seemed useful.

Thanks for the page ! Can you add UI/UX designing tools as well ? It's also useful to solo founders.

UI/UX designing tools is exactly the category I am going to explore next, so yes, this section is not finished yet.

There's also Q CLI, which is Amazon's Q but in a CLI form.

Site's not responsive on mobiles, please take a look

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