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 | 57.5 | 38% | 2.3 | 7 | |
| 2 | GitHub Actions | — | 52.9 | 75% | 10.0 | 3 | |
| 3 | GitLab | — | 52.2 | 50% | 5.0 | — | |
| 4 | VS Code | Microsoft | 49.7 | 25% | 2.5 | NEW | |
| 5 | Bitbucket | Atlassian | 48.8 | 50% | 6.0 | 1 | |
| 6 | Cursor | Anysphere | 48.8 | 50% | 6.0 | 5 | |
| 7 | Neovim | — | 46.6 | 38% | 4.7 | NEW | |
| 8 | JetBrains IDEs | — | 45.6 | 13% | 2.0 | 1 | |
| 9 | IntelliJ IDEA | — | 45.6 | 13% | 2.0 | NEW | |
| 10 | Podman | Red Hat | 45.6 | 13% | 2.0 | NEW | |
| 11 | Swagger / OpenAPI + Swagger UI | — | 45.6 | 13% | 2.0 | NEW | |
| 12 | Git | — | 42.4 | 25% | 4.0 | 10 | |
| 13 | Neovim / Vim | — | 40.2 | 13% | 3.0 | NEW | |
| 14 | WebStorm | JetBrains | 40.2 | 13% | 3.0 | NEW | |
| 15 | Buildpacks | — | 40.2 | 13% | 3.0 | NEW | |
| 16 | Claude 3.5/4 Sonnet | — | 40.2 | 13% | 3.0 | NEW | |
| 17 | Jenkins | Jenkins | 38.7 | 50% | 10.3 | NEW | |
| 18 | Vercel | Vercel | 35.6 | 13% | 4.0 | NEW | |
| 19 | Vim | — | 35.6 | 13% | 4.0 | NEW | |
| 20 | Kaniko | — | 35.6 | 13% | 4.0 | NEW |
Overall Top 20 — mention frequency vs average rank. Split by this period's medians. Tap a point to see its name.