AI tools

Agent in the editor. A lot of these started as a repo and a bad idea.

The other tab in VS Code. Completes the line you were going to write anyway.

Agent-first IDE. Cursor's cousin with a different hat.

ByteDance's editor. Cursor, but the model is often Chinese.

Claude in the terminal. It reads the repo and opens the PR.

OpenAI's coding agent. ChatGPT that is allowed to touch files.

Git-native pair programmer in the terminal.

Open agent in the editor. You bring the API key.

Open-source autocomplete + chat, any model.

Long-context chat. Good at dumping a whole canvas file in one go.

xAI. Ships jokes and games in the same breath.

The default tab. Half the cabinet began here.

Google's model. Long context, occasional confidence.

Meta Superintelligence Labs. Agentic coding model — 1.1, 1.2, 1.3.

The Meta AI app and meta.ai. Often running Muse Spark under the hood.

Prompt to a running web build in the browser.

Prompt-to-playable, aimed at games.

Vercel. Prompt a UI, get React that looks like it ships.

Chat until there is a deployed app. Supabase included.

Cloud IDE plus an agent that runs the thing.

Wix-owned prompt-to-app. Fast internal tools.

Multi-agent builder. Prompt to a full-stack app.

Google's prompt-to-app IDE on Firebase.

Prompt-to-app. Another tab that says it will ship for you.

Clone a site by URL, then vibe from there.

Prompt-to-site for small web apps.

Prompt to frontend, backend, and auth in one pass.

Cheap, open, and good at code. The reason the API bill dropped.

Alibaba. Coder models people actually run.

Moonshot. Long context, strong at agents.

Zhipu / Z.ai. GLM and CodeGeeX live here.

M-series models. Shows up in a lot of agent stacks.

ByteDance chat model. Seed under the hood.

Baidu. The one your uncle in Beijing already uses.

Tencent. Chat, plus the 3D and video cousins.

Xiaomi's coding model. Open weights, quiet flex.

01.AI. An older open model that still gets tagged.

iFlytek. Office stack more than jam stack.

Step models. Another CN lab in the agent mix.

SenseTime. Vision-heavy, still a checkbox.

Open-ish CN model family. Tag it if you used it.

Text or image to a textured 3D mesh.

Sprites, 3D, audio, and a GDD nobody asked for.

Game art that stays in one style.

The pretty pictures. Then someone had to make them move.

Black Forest Labs. The open-ish image model.

Image gen with a game-asset habit.

Vectors, icons, UI. Sharp edges.

ByteDance image gen. Often the cover.

Tencent text-to-3D. Open weights, engine-ready-ish.

CN video gen. Trailer first, game later.

Voices and SFX. The NPC that will not shut up.

The soundtrack in 30 seconds.

A model we have not listed, a local llama, or a cursed mix of all of the above.