Mahnoor Faisal May 17, 2026, 6:00 PM EDT Mahnoor Faisal is a tech journalist covering AI and productivity tools with bylines at XDA , SlashGear , MakeUseOf , Laptop Mag , and Android Police . She…
Megan Ellis May 8, 2026, 7:30 AM EDT Megan is a Software Writer at XDA Developers who has been writing about consumer technology since 2016. With a postgraduate degree in New…
…ChatGPT opened the conversation (and remained the tool people instantly associated the term AI with), Gemini was on a roll, and Claude was just...there. Developers loved it and kept raving on…
…Sign in to your XDA account Most IDEs have evolved from simple autocomplete tools into autonomous development partners. The arrival of Windsurf 2.0 directly challenges the dominance of VS Code and…
…Very few attempt to build a completely different editor experience while still offering modern IDE features and strong developer tooling. Zed is one of the few that does. I had been trying…
…See at Claude Related I created a complex website using Claude Code, Codex, and Google Antigravity, and only one of them behaved like a senior developer Testing AI coding tools on a…
…A lot of developers want a tool that accelerates the boring parts, handles the obvious stuff, and lets them move through tickets faster. If Claude Code doesn’t consistently feel strongest in…
Mahnoor Faisal Mar 31, 2026, 4:00 AM EDT Mahnoor Faisal is a tech journalist covering AI and productivity tools with bylines at XDA , SlashGear , MakeUseOf , Laptop Mag , and Android Police . She…
…Here is why Google’s AI tool is quickly surpassing both these tools and shaking up the future of digital note-taking. Related Obsidian vs. Notion: The ultimate battle for your second…
…When VS Code premiered, I thought of it strictly as a developer tool, which didn't really compete with Notepad++. Since then, it has matured into the best general-purpose text editor…
