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Open Source AI Coding Tools: Aider, Continue, and Cline
Licence and price are the same across all three. Release cadence, maintenance signals, and ownership are not — and that is the axis that should decide it.
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Reviews
Assessments of individual tools and of the groups people actually choose between: open-source agents like Aider, Continue and Cline, the free tiers and what they include once you read the limits, and which tools survive contact with someone who has not used one before. Each is written after using the tool on real work, and says plainly where it stops being useful.
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FEATURED
Best AI Coding Assistant for Beginners: Read the Refusals
Twelve first-day probes on one machine. Eight refusals, four of them naming a fix — and the one fix that is named most clearly is the one you should not take.
Sep 2211 min read
Vibe Coding Tools: 85% of the First Pass Is Still Here
Generated code does not rot. It gets rewritten in a very small number of places, and this measures which ones.
Aug 2312 min read
AI Coding Tools for Beginners: The Name Is the Trap
One of ten obvious install commands gets you the tool. Three get you unrelated software that ships a command with exactly the name you meant to run.
Aug 2111 min read
AI Coding Tools for Solo Developers and Freelancers
Employed developers get a seat. You buy one. Here's the break-even between a $20 subscription and bring-your-own-key, using every vendor's live August 2026 pricing.
Aug 110 min read
AI Coding Tool Free Tiers: What You Actually Get for $0
We checked every major vendor's live pricing and docs pages on the same day. Here's what each free plan actually caps, and which numbers are stale.
Jul 2813 min read