AI Programming Tools

Notes on AI tools and techniques to aide with programming tasks.

Currently Using

Aider - AI Pair Programming in Your Terminal. I really like this for quickly getting scripts and glue code off the ground. It’s what I used to generate the Bear2Astro script I mentioned in The Constant Gardener using Claude with API credits.

Tried but not currently using

Cursor. I don’t entirely buy into the entire IDE replacement idea.

Noted but not used

Junie, the coding agent by JetBrains
Codebuddy
Sourcegraph Cody