Gemini CLI and its gemini-2.5-pro model don’t quite match Claude Code or Solver, but they can get you pretty far without paying for a subscription or for usage. When I started out developing software ...

What if your command line could think as fast as you do? Imagine a tool that doesn’t just execute commands but actively collaborates with you—writing code, managing projects, and analyzing data—all ...

In the world of IDE-based development, programmers can easily become detached from JDK and the underlying technology that makes their applications work. Here is a list of the five most useful Java ...

AI-powered software development tools are rapidly evolving. What began as enhanced autocomplete has expanded into AI agents that can write applications, debug problems, and manage entire codebases—or, ...

Move to skill-based CLI setups where each .md skill adds just 10–50 tokens, giving you thousands of integrations without ballooning context.

Goose, Block’s open-source AI coding agent, is emerging as a free alternative to Anthropic’s Claude Code, as developers weigh ...

I tried four vibe-coding tools, including Cursor and Replit, with no coding background. Here's what worked (and what didn't).

OpenAI Codex uses AI to help you understand and write code better. You can set up Codex Command-Line (CLI) to make the coding process a lot simpler and efficient. To ...

We're big proponents of "work smarter, not harder" here at XDA, and that means figuring out how to automate as much of our ...

Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan has called himself “addicted” to Anthropic’s Claude Code, highlighting how AI-powered coding tools are rapidly reshaping software development and the role of engineers.