AI Engineering Code Editors + Agentic CLIs

List of editors CLIs, and other ways to go from text to code, although it probably doesn’t matter which tool you choose.

Pure Text Editors

  • Zed - Fast, collaborative editor from the original creator of Atom, with built-in AI features - my preferred editor BY FAR
  • VS Code
  • Cline - VS Code extension that creates autonomous AI coding agents
  • Cursor - AI-first code editor built on VS Code with natural language editing
  • Windsurf - Codeium’s AI-native IDE with collaborative AI agent workflows
  • Trae - from Bytedance
  • @sourcegraph/amp
  • roocode

No-Code AI Platforms

  • Lovable - AI-powered full-stack app builder that generates React apps from natural language
  • Bolt - StackBlitz’s AI web development platform for instant full-stack applications
  • V0 - Vercel’s AI-powered UI generator that creates React components from prompts
  • Figma Make - Figma’s dev mode with AI assistance for design-to-code workflows

VS Code Extensions + Plugins

  • VS Code + Claude Code - Claude Code has some IDE-first extensions to use Claude Code directly in VS Code.
  • GitHub Copilot - The earliest AI tab completion extension for VS Code.

Agentic Coding CLIs

Remote Agents

  • Container Use - enable agents to run in a container, possibly remotely
  • tembo
  • ona - more for big 大厂 to deploy + control AI-powered coding environments to their underlings
  • vibetunnel - actually kinda like inverse remote - access your local computer’s terminal sesh from e.g., mobile

Other?

  • conductor - allows you to run a bunch of Claude Codes in parallel, handles the git worktree stuff
  • serena - MCP server to use alongside Claude Code, purportedly makes Claude Code way more productive
  • humanlayer - not sure what it is but it claims to be an IDE that lets you orchestrate coding agents, including remote
  • repomix - packs your entire repo into one file for AI consumption
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