AI Coding Tools: My Experience and Practical Tips

Sat, 31 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

2024 and early 2025 were one hell of a wild ride. Lots of AI tools emerged from different companies. It’s not all that new, some were being developed for quite some time. And as a matter of fact, they are becoming more and more usable day by day. Recently, Anthropic released their latest model claude-4-sonnet, which is great for coding as it writes fewer comments and can manage smaller tasks quite well. I’ve been using Cursor (aka the AI editor) for quite some time. There are also other alternatives. But as of writing this today, Cursor works best for me. I got my subscription because I kinda liked the tab model. If you’ve been exposed to any of the AI editors, you already know it can understand the pattern. If you change something in one line, it can understand and then can apply the same change for the next couple of lines, which is quite good and quite enjoyable too. No need to learn vim macro for that. Sorry vim users (myself included, I use vim mode all the time). Though in most cases with its tab model, it goes way beyond that simple change.

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AI Coding Tools: My Experience and Practical Tips