When developers ask AI which IDE, database, or infra tool to pick, here’s who ends up on that shortlist. IDE, database, and infra choices stick — a bad pick costs migration time later. See who AI names for engineers this week before you invest in evals — and track which competitors stay on (or fall off) that shortlist.
IntelliJ IDEA made the largest climb, up 9 to #8.
| Compare | Pos | Product | Company | Change | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Visual Studio Code | Microsoft | 74.3 | 63% | 1.8 | — | |
| 2 | GitLab | — | 65.3 | 75% | 5.2 | 6 | |
| 3 | Bitbucket | Atlassian | 62.0 | 75% | 6.2 | 4 | |
| 4 | Git | — | 57.3 | 50% | 3.8 | 2 | |
| 5 | IntelliJ IDEA | — | 52.5 | 25% | 2.0 | 7 | |
| 6 | GitHub Copilot | GitHub | 49.7 | 25% | 2.5 | 1 | |
| 7 | GitHub Actions | — | 49.3 | 75% | 12.5 | 3 | |
| 8 | GitLab CI/CD | — | 48.5 | 75% | 13.2 | 2 | |
| 9 | CircleCI | CircleCI | 47.3 | 75% | 14.3 | 2 | |
| 10 | Swagger / OpenAPI | — | 45.6 | 13% | 2.0 | 1 | |
| 11 | Docker | Docker | 44.6 | 75% | 18.3 | 8 | |
| 12 | Kubernetes | — | 44.1 | 75% | 19.3 | 8 | |
| 13 | Jenkins | Jenkins | 42.8 | 63% | 12.2 | 5 | |
| 14 | JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA | JetBrains | 42.4 | 25% | 4.0 | 11 | |
| 15 | Eclipse | — | 41.9 | 38% | 6.0 | NEW | |
| 16 | Sublime Text | — | 40.4 | 25% | 4.5 | 2 | |
| 17 | Fleet | — | 40.2 | 13% | 3.0 | NEW | |
| 18 | JetBrains | — | 40.2 | 13% | 3.0 | NEW | |
| 19 | Amazon CodeWhisperer | — | 40.2 | 13% | 3.0 | NEW | |
| 20 | Insomnia | — | 40.2 | 13% | 3.0 | 3 |
Overall Top 20 — mention frequency vs average rank. Split by this period's medians. Tap a point to see its name.