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

• claude-code
• opencode
• amp
• jules - from google
• task-master - similar to claude code
• kiro - from AWS
• qwen-code - similar to claude code
• serena
• crush - from the creators of Charm Bracelet
• cursor CLI
• Trae Solo
• codex cli (openAI)

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