What is the best Vibe Coding tool so far? Bonus points if we've never heard of it!
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I might be missing some but I've been pretty much in love with @Lovable, @Cursor, @bolt.new and have been trying to use @Replit more and I honestly haven't touched @BASE44 too much but have heard good things. @chrismessina has nudged me to use @Windsurf for whenever I build another Raycast Extension!
Currently I use:
- @bolt.new / @Lovable
- @Cursor
- @Warp
Curious what everyone thinks is the top one so far!
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I've used Firebase Studio ( @Firebase a Google product) recently. Pretty easy, not super robust. Good for small applications like this: https://studio--gentext-zagsi.us-central1.hosted.app
Also, Magic Patterns @Magic Patterns is a new one I've queued up to play with this weekend: https://www.magicpatterns.com
Best IDE so far for me is TRAE
I'm voting for @Cursor It really helps me create my startup from design implement to deploying
I got locked into Cursor early, and it's great for my dev friends, but as a "less than technical" person, I started messing with Lovable this past week. It's hard to beat Cursor with Claude 4, it feels like a god damn superpower - but I blow up a lot of stuff and have learned to toggle between "ask" and "agent." "Restore point" is my friend.
I like blowing out ideas in Perplexity Labs, then copying the app to cursor to create apps in 30 minutes. I know, it's lame, but it works.
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Wow Windsurf is getting demolished in the poll. How the mighty have fallen.
@steveb Basically I guess for what happened last few weeks. I've followed for a while. It turns out that there has been an acquisition race to get Windsurf's technologies. First OpenAI was rumored to be in talks with them to buy it at $3B. Then Microsoft came in and stopped affecting a deal. Google intervened and hired their top makers, including their CEO. Finally Cognition acquired Windsurf and their remaining team.
It was wild.
Most likely Cognition is going to deprecate & merge Windsurf's technologies into Devin.
Give zencoder.ai a try - likely the most complete solution that integrates directly into your existing IDE, like VS Code or JetBrains - plus you can build your own custom agents and have a nice test coverage, so you are not shipping just vibes but actual production-ready quality of code.
@Replit @Lovable and @bolt.new are my top 3, didn't like the others. Replit does have a looping issue which I have highlighted to @amasad in my tweet in response to the recent incident. There are two new ones that I trying now Emergent and @Dualite and they look quite decent.
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@Cursor is what I've ended up using now for 9 months or more - and I'm very satisfied with the experience after trying GH Copilot, WindSurf and initially just using ChatGPT and having to manually paste code into editors like WebStorm (that was in early 2024). I have moved my whole dev team to Cursor and productivity has accelerated tremendously. My own personal workflow involves using vzero.dev from @Vercel to create UI mockups (it is one of the best tools for that) and I use screenshots of the mockups to help drive Cursor to create entire components (and even 2 full apps!). I've written up some notes on my workflow on my blog here if that is helpful (https://www.robotmunki.com/blog/ai-coding-workflow).