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✓ verifiedFreemium
Open-source AI coding assistant offering autocomplete and chat in IDEs; the company was acquired by Cursor.
👁 775K/mo
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Gemini Code Assist
✓ verifiedFreemium
Google's AI coding assistant for code completion, generation, chat and review across IDEs and GitHub.
👁 559K/mo
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Sherpa Coder
✓ verifiedFree
VS Code extension letting developers chat with their own custom OpenAI assistants without leaving the editor.
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Core features
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- ✦Open-source AI code assistant
- ✦Customizable autocomplete
- ✦In-editor AI chat
- ✦Community-built coding agent
- ✦AI code completion and suggestions
- ✦Natural-language code generation
- ✦In-IDE chat assistance
- ✦AI code review
- ✦IDE integrations (VS Code, JetBrains, etc.)
- ✦GitHub integration
- ✦in-editor chat with OpenAI assistants
- ✦workspace source-code context sharing
- ✦support for custom, user-defined assistants
- ✦secure management of the user's OpenAI account
Use cases
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- →Get AI code completions while coding
- →Ask questions about code in the editor
- →Build on an open-source coding-agent foundation
- →Speeding up coding with AI completions
- →Generating code from plain-language prompts
- →Getting in-editor help and explanations
- →Reviewing pull requests with AI
- →Understanding unfamiliar codebases
- →getting coding help without switching out of VS Code
- →using a personalized OpenAI assistant tuned to a project
- →quick in-editor Q&A while writing code
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