clanker6900

So many clankers these days. Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Devin, v0, Windsurf, Replit Agent, Bolt, Lovable, Aider, Cline, and like 47 more that launched while you were reading this sentence.

Every week there's a new AI coding thing. A new agent. A new IDE. A new "vibe coding" experience. It's a lot. Here's the current roster of silicon colleagues trying to take your job (or maybe just help you do it faster, who knows).

The Clanker Index

A non-exhaustive list of AI coding tools that exist right now. Probably missed a few. Three more probably launched while compiling this list.

Claude Code

Anthropic

Terminal-based coding agent that lives in your CLI. Writes code, runs commands, fixes bugs. Basically an intern that never sleeps.

Cursor

Anysphere

VS Code fork with AI superpowers. Tab-completes your thoughts. Knows your codebase better than you do.

GitHub Copilot

GitHub / Microsoft

The OG clanker. Started the whole autocomplete-your-code thing. Now in your IDE, your CLI, your terminal, everywhere.

v0

Vercel

Generates full React components from prompts. Basically turned frontend development into a conversation.

Devin

Cognition

The 'AI software engineer' that got everyone excited and/or worried. Can allegedly do entire tasks autonomously.

Windsurf

Codeium

IDE with 'Cascade' - an AI agent that can make changes across your entire codebase. Another one.

Replit Agent

Replit

Build entire apps from a prompt. Deploys them too. The ultimate vibe coding experience.

Bolt

StackBlitz

AI app builder in the browser. No local setup. Just describe what you want and watch it materialize.

Lovable

Formerly GPT Engineer. AI that builds full-stack apps. Pivoted harder than a startup at demo day.

Aider

Paul Gauthier

Open source CLI coding assistant. Git-aware. Pair programs with any LLM you throw at it.

Cline

VS Code extension that can use your terminal, browser, and editor. Open source. Previously 'Claude Dev'.

Amazon Q Developer

AWS

Amazon's answer to Copilot. Enterprise-y. Knows about AWS stuff, which is either useful or terrifying.

The Thesis

Look, nobody knows where this is going. Maybe these tools make developers 10x more productive. Maybe they make everyone a developer. Maybe they hallucinate one too many bugs into production and we all go back to writing code by hand like artisans.

But right now? The clanker index is up. Way up. Every big tech company has one. Every startup is building one. VCs can't stop funding them. Your coworker won't stop talking about them.

Time to invest in the clanker index.

invest now