AI Builds It: Easy Coding Tools
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AI Builds It: Easy Coding Tools is the podcast for the new era of software creation — where anyone can build real apps, tools, and automations using AI, no computer science degree required.Published multiple times a week, each episode is a deep-research audio article analyzing the newest AI coding tools, vibe coding workflows, and agentic builders reshaping how software gets made. We break down tools like Cursor, Claude Code, Replit Agent, Lovable, Bolt, v0, Windsurf, and every major new launch — separating real capability from hype, and showing how non-developers are shipping production apps in hours instead of months.The core idea...
Episodes(28 episodes)
GPT-5.5 vs Claude Opus 4.8: Which Model Is Better for Agentic Coding Workflows?
Read the full article: GPT-5.5 vs Claude Opus 4.8: Which Model Is Better for Agentic Coding Workflows?Discover more at AI Builds It: Easy Coding ToolsExcerpt:Autonomous Coding AbilityLarge language models like GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.8 are designed to act as autonomous coding assistants that can plan and execute multi-step programming tasks. OpenAI describes GPT-5.5 as able to “excels at writing and debugging code, … moving across tools until a task is finished” (openai.com). In practical terms, GPT-5.5 can take a vague, multi-part software request and handle the details itself – from bre...
Published: Jun 1, 2026Duration: 26m 41s
Autonomous Coding Agents Ranked: Codex vs Claude Code vs Devin vs Cursor vs Copilot
Read the full article: Autonomous Coding Agents Ranked: Codex vs Claude Code vs Devin vs Cursor vs CopilotDiscover more at AI Builds It: Easy Coding ToolsExcerpt:Autonomous Coding Agents Ranked: Codex vs Claude Code vs Devin vs Cursor vs CopilotDevelopers today have many “autonomous coding agents” to choose from – far beyond simple chatbots. Some are IDE plugins with built-in agent modes, others run as command-line tools or cloud services, and still others act as web app builders or bots that turn issue descriptions into pull requests. The useful questi...
Published: May 25, 2026Duration: 1h 0m 13s
Roo Code: A Claude-Powered Dev Agent Inside VS Code
Read the full article: Roo Code: A Claude-Powered Dev Agent Inside VS CodeDiscover more at AI Builds It: Easy Coding ToolsExcerpt:Roo Code: A Claude-Powered Dev Agent Inside VS CodeRoo Code is a free, open-source AI-powered assistant that lives inside Visual Studio Code. Like having “an AI-powered dev team” in your editor, it can read and write code across multiple files, run commands, and even browse the web to gather information (roocode.com) (direct.betterstack.com). Under the hood it uses large language models (you can “plug in” Anthropi...
Published: May 16, 2026Duration: 31m 36s
Plandex: Large-Repo Autonomous Refactoring and Release Management
Read the full article: Plandex: Large-Repo Autonomous Refactoring and Release ManagementDiscover more at AI Builds It: Easy Coding ToolsExcerpt:Plandex: Autonomous Refactoring and Release Management for Large CodebasesPlandex is an open-source AI-powered coding assistant designed to handle large, real-world programming tasks that span many files. It uses modern language models (LLMs) to plan, apply, and verify multi-step changes. Unlike simple text-complete coding tools, Plandex builds a “plan-sandbox”: it generates all proposed edits in a separate space (viewable via plandex diff), and only applies them to your project when you...
Published: May 12, 2026Duration: 14m 37s
Sweep AI: Issue-to-PR Automation in Public Repositories
Read the full article: Sweep AI: Issue-to-PR Automation in Public RepositoriesDiscover more at AI Builds It: Easy Coding ToolsExcerpt:IntroductionSweep AI is an AI-powered junior developer for GitHub that turns written issue descriptions into code changes. In practice, a user writes a GitHub issue (e.g. “add type hints to this file”) and Sweep autonomously searches the codebase, generates the needed code, and opens a pull request for review (www.fondo.com) (pypi.org). As one security profile notes, “Sweep is an AI code assistant that turns GitHub issues...
Published: May 6, 2026Duration: 19m 55s
Replit Agent: Product Capabilities and Early User Feedback
Read the full article: Replit Agent: Product Capabilities and Early User FeedbackDiscover more at AI Builds It: Easy Coding ToolsExcerpt:IntroductionReplit is a web-based programming platform that lets anyone build software in the browser. Its Replit Agent is an AI-powered coding assistant that can turn plain-language prompts into working apps (skywork.ai) (blog.replit.com). In practice, you describe the app or feature you want, and the Agent “plans” the work, writes the code, runs tests, and even helps deploy it, all within the Replit workspace (skywork.ai) (docs...
Published: Apr 29, 2026Duration: 16m 22s
Inside Devin’s Workflow: Tool Use, Planning, and Autonomy
Read the full article: Inside Devin’s Workflow: Tool Use, Planning, and AutonomyDiscover more at AI Builds It: Easy Coding ToolsExcerpt:Introduction
Devin (from Cognition AI) is a new autonomous AI software engineer that can plan software development tasks and carry them out largely on its own. It works end-to-end on code projects, using tools like a code editor, a command-line shell, and a web browser to research, write, test, and deploy code. In demos and press, Devin has been shown scanning a codebase, generating a plan, editing files, running tests, an...
Published: Apr 26, 2026Duration: 17m 35s
Cursor IDE Agent: Repository-Scale Edits and Developer Reports
Read the full article: Cursor IDE Agent: Repository-Scale Edits and Developer ReportsDiscover more at AI Builds It: Easy Coding ToolsExcerpt:Cursor IDE Agent: Repository-Scale Edits and Developer ReportsCursor is an AI-native code editor (a VS Code fork) designed to manage entire codebases with built-in artificial intelligence. Unlike basic autocomplete tools, Cursor’s Agent Mode lets the AI act “in the driver’s seat,” reading, editing and creating code across multiple files at once (federicocalo.dev) (www.datacamp.com). In this mode, the AI can search your code, update imports...
Published: Apr 23, 2026Duration: 17m 56s