I was reading this recent @OpenAI article about Gartner naming OpenAI a Leader in enterprise AI coding agents: https://openai.com/index/gartner....

"Software development is becoming more agentic." This is a good summary of what is happening right now. We are moving from AI that helps you write faster, to AI that can take over tasks (actions, use tools, make changes, run tests, and bring the work back for human review). That is a very different behavior.
The article gives Cisco as an example. They used Codex for a big part of their AI Defense platform and reduced delivery time from several quarters to a few weeks.

Doing one of these because I get more from reading what others are building than from any newsletter.

I'll start.

AI coding assistants have become part of my daily workflow, especially for repetitive tasks, documentation, and quick prototypes.

At the same time, I've found myself spending more time reviewing generated code than I expected, particularly around security, scalability, and edge cases.

For me, AI has become an accelerator, not a replacement for engineering judgment.

I'm curious how others are using these tools today.

I have been looking at what is actually getting traction on Product Hunt right now. The pattern is clear.

In March, OpenClaw products dominated the leaderboard. Anything with "Claw" in the name got votes. That was a land grab new space, everyone rushing in to claim a spot .

In April, that stopped. The "just build an agent" strategy stopped working. What replaced it? Products that do specific tasks inside workflows you already have .

Here is what the data shows.

Terminal or editor-first UI? How do you prefer to work with AI coding agents?

There seems to have two types of developers:

• Human in the loop: Those who like to control the behavior of their agents as it works, looking at the context usage, reading reasoning blocks, and approving individual file edits.

• Agent first: Those who prefer to review the output of agents, rather than individual actions, and run one or more sessions in parallel.

What type of developer are you when working with AI coding agents?

I use AI every day as a Product and UX/UI Designer, and it saves me hours every week. But sometimes I spend 20 minutes trying to get AI to do something I could finish manually in 5. I am sure every profession has tasks like this.

What is that one task in your workflow where AI is still slower than doing it yourself?

My favorite usage of AI currently is helping me prototype and bring to life internal tools that help me with my daily life.

I am preparing for job interviews so I built a tool to help prepare for technical questions.

I am networking so I built a tool to help break the ice at events.

There are so many new AI agent platforms ( @Wordware @Lindy @CrewAI @zapier and so on) that I'm finding myself curious how everyone is using them.

What AI agents are you using in production? What do they do? Are they working and reliable? What would make them better? Are they replacing roles? Augmenting existing ones?

If you're building a product with AI tools, here's how your morning probably looks:

• Open ChatGPT. Paste your project context. Ask your question. Get a decent answer.

• Switch to Claude for something else. Paste your context again. Different tool, same briefing.

• Hop into your codebase with Codex. Paste context again.

You're not just a builder anymore. You're a context delivery system.

The indie hackers I've talked to who use AI most effectively have one thing in common: they've figured out how to stop babysitting their tools and just use them.

I was recently talking with a group of founders, and we went around sharing tools we're using now. Posting my notes for our community here - would love to know what else people are using!

Voice AI toolkit:

- Vapi

I am attempting to observe what you use for coding. I have come across many tools on Product Hunt + Web, but I am fairly certain I have missed quite a bit.
I divided them into "traditional" and "specialised".

Traditional AI models:

DeepSeek

Everyone s been talking about AI Agents over the past year.

But the real leverage doesn t come from the agent itself. It comes from the context you provide:

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At this point, all of the AI coding assistants are in the same neighborhood. Decent at "advanced autocomplete", OK at code generation sometimes, and most are somewhere in the process of incorporating code context mechanisms. But what's next? Agentic behavior? Something else?
My pet prediction is that we will see the emergence of a new programming language that's designed for use with AI and can be translated to a variety of popular languages. (Or if we're cursed, just javascript )