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AI Assisted Editors: A Comparison (Part 2)

August 01, 2025  10 minute read  

In my last article, I provided a break down of the three commercial AI assisted editors that I use on a regular basis. However, not everyone can afford a monthly subscription ($20/month is the standard), or maybe you prefer different models or a more local development environment. There are still options that you can use to get AI assisted editing yet avoid the subscription charge. What is an AI Assisted Editor? As a developer, you open up an editor and write code. AI Assisted editors ...

AI Assisted Editors: A Comparison (Part 1)

August 01, 2025  13 minute read  

You can’t go a lap about development these days without bumping into AI assisted editors. Most of the AI tooling companies I see are heavily investing in Visual Studio Code based editors, but you have some others out there as well. I’m going to break the comparison I’m doing into three articles - one on the paid offerings I’ve personally used, one on the “free” offerings I’ve used, and one on the quirks of the LLMs that are in common use. Hopefully, by the end of this, you’ll understand th...