AI Coding Assistants
Coding assistants and developer productivity with AI: features, pricing and comparisons.
- OpenAI Will Merge ChatGPT's Chat and Work Tabs and Pool Usage With CodexOpenAI is folding ChatGPT's Chat and Work tabs into one experience, and from December Plus, Pro and Business usage will come from one token pool shared with Codex. Here is how to plan for it.
- DeepSeek Open-Sources a 'Super-Agent' That Takes Coding Requests From a Whole TeamDeepSeek has released dsh-superagent, an MIT-licensed research prototype that watches a GitHub repository and team chat, takes requests only from approved people and replies with pull requests. Here is how it works, what it requires and the security caveats its own docs spell out.
- Google Is Shutting Down Jules on Dec 31: Key Dates and How to Export Your Coding Agent DataGoogle's asynchronous coding agent Jules stops taking new sessions on November 11 and shuts down on December 31, 2026. Code in GitHub is safe, but settings, memories, scheduled tasks and session history need exporting first.
- GitHub Copilot Fusion Picks Your AI Models, Nearing Top Coding Agents at Half the CostGitHub's Copilot Fusion, now generally available, routes each coding task across AI models; Fusion Max scored within two points of Claude Code with Opus 5.5 Max at about half the cost per task.