AI Engineering Code Editors

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

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.