4 AI Tools that changing software development:

- Cursor
- Trae
- Claude Code
- Co-pilot Agent Mode

Claude-3.7-Sonnet is now available on Trae

Running Copilot Agent mode through the paces (code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2025/0...). It is more thorough than Trae, but still produces errors during large refactors. Testing still matters

One little LM trick I learned this weekend is you can ask the LLM for suggestions on improving its output. It actually gave me pretty good advice at what to include in the context to produce more relevant output

One of the difficult parts in making the transition to AI based application development is dealing with non-determinism. Devs are trained to think: "data in -> data out", and tooling is built around that idea. LLMs aren't like that. Inconsistency must be dealt with to create a quality product.

I'm disappointed at how the tech industry at large is handling the shift to AI. Laying off 1000s of employees who they expect nothing but loyalty from, but ultimately show no loyalty to.

There is no job stability in the current environment. It is every person for themselves. Embrace AI or move on.

Yesterday I ran into a problem that no AI tool could solve. There was a error in the REST API of an email tool. Eventually I realized there was a bug in their wrapper client, and I re-wrote the code with fetch() API, and fixed the issue.

Maybe coding isn't dead after all. Long live Software Dev!