The Future of Coding: AI Tools Emerge

The era of manually typing every single line of code is officially dead. I spent the last

month testing every major AI coding tool out there, and the shift from simple chatbots

to full-blown autonomous agents is terrifyingly good. If you are still copy-pasting code

from ChatGPT into VS Code, you are working too slow. You need to switch

to an AI-native editor. Right now, Cursor is the one to beat.

Its Composer mode doesn't just autocomplete; it understands your entire project context, refactors across

multiple files, and fixes bugs before you even run the code. But Windsurf is

the new challenger you need to watch. It uses an agent called Cascade that lives in your editor