AI coding tools: how to compare them instead of chasing rankings
The offering keeps changing, so instead of yet another list of names we propose an evaluation framework that is useful whatever happens to be fashionable.
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How to find your way around AI coding tools and what agents are.
AI agents: when the model carries out the steps itself
A chat answers a question. An agent is given a goal and plans the steps, runs tools and checks the results on its own. Convenient, but it needs supervision.