🧪 I Used It for a Week

Honest, week-long reviews of AI coding tools

Every Friday
  1. #14

    I Used Continue.dev for a Week — The Open-Source Copilot That Connects to Any Model

    Week 14 of my AI tool series. Continue.dev is the open-source GitHub Copilot alternative that lets you bring your own model. After a week in VS Code, here's the honest review.
  2. #13

    I Used Google Antigravity for a Week — The Agent-First IDE That Wants to Replace Everything

    Week 13 of my AI tool series. Google Antigravity isn't just an AI coding assistant — it's an autonomous agent that plans, codes, tests, and deploys. After a week, here's the truth.
  3. #13

    I Used Grok Build for a Week: Here's My Honest Review

    Grok Build is xAI's new CLI coding agent with multi-agent architecture and a skills marketplace. After a week of real use, here's what works, what doesn't, and who it's for.
  4. #12

    I Used OpenCode for a Week — The 95K-Star Open-Source Challenger to Claude Code

    Week 12 of my AI tool series. OpenCode is the most popular open-source AI coding agent with 95K+ GitHub stars. After a week of real use, here's how it compares to Claude Code and Aider.
  5. #11

    I Used Aider for a Week — The Terminal-Only AI Coder That Costs $2/Day

    Week 11 of my AI tool series. Aider runs in your terminal, edits your files directly, and commits every change to git. After a week of real coding, here's the honest review.
  6. #10

    I Used Replit Agent for a Week — Here's What Actually Happened

    Replit Agent builds and deploys full apps from prompts. After a week of real use, here's how it compares to Bolt.new, Cursor, and doing it yourself.
  7. #9

    I Used v0 for a Week — Here's What Actually Happened

    Vercel's v0 generates full UI components from text prompts. After a week of real use, here's whether it lives up to the hype.
  8. #8

    I Used Bolt.new for a Week — Here's What Actually Happened

    Bolt.new promises full-stack apps from a single prompt. After a week of building real projects, here's the truth about AI app generators.
  9. #7

    I Used Claude Code for a Week — Here's What Actually Happened

    Claude Code is Anthropic's CLI-first AI coding tool. After a week in real projects, here's what it does better than Copilot and where it falls short.
  10. #6

    I Used Devin for a Week — Here's What Actually Happened

    Devin promised to be the first AI software engineer. After a week of real tasks, here's the honest truth about what it can and can't do.
  11. #5

    I Used ChatGPT Plus for a Week — The Swiss Army Knife That's Not a Scalpel

    Week 4 of my AI tool series. ChatGPT isn't a coding IDE, but millions of developers use it daily. Here's what it's actually good at — and where dedicated tools destroy it.
  12. #4

    I Used Windsurf for a Week — The Budget AI Editor That Punches Up

    Week 4 of my AI tool series. Windsurf costs $15/month vs Cursor's $20. After testing Cursor, Kiro, and Copilot, is the cheaper option actually good enough?
  13. #3

    I Used GitHub Copilot for a Week — The Safe Choice That's Falling Behind

    Week 3 of my AI tool series. After Cursor and Kiro, I went back to GitHub Copilot. It's solid, reliable, and increasingly outclassed.
  14. #2

    I Used Kiro for a Week — The AI IDE That Plans Before It Codes

    Week 2 of my AI tool series. Kiro takes a completely different approach than Cursor — it writes specs before code. Here's what that's actually like in practice.
  15. #1

    I Used Cursor AI for a Week — Here's What Actually Happened

    After a week of using Cursor as my daily code editor, here's the honest truth: what blew me away, what frustrated me, and whether it's worth $20/month.