AI Tools

AI Tools covers the category most teams underestimate: the developer-facing tools that sit between your team and the models. Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Replit, Bolt, v0, Perplexity, Glean, Granola, and the long tail of specialized tools have quietly become as important to a working engineer's day as the IDE was a decade ago. Choosing them well, and knowing when to decline them, materially changes how productive a team is.

What distinguishes this track from a listicle is that we cover each tool on the dimensions that actually matter in a professional setting: data residency, model transparency, latency, offline behavior, undo behavior, how well it handles large codebases, and how it fails. The lessons include our honest appraisal of which tools are worth the subscription, which are worth the learning curve, and which have been oversold. You can use this track to build a defensible team tooling stack.