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 | GitLab | — | 54.6 | 56% | 6.9 | 100% | — | |
| 2 | Visual Studio Code | Microsoft | 52.7 | 31% | 3.2 | 83% | 6 | |
| 3 | GitHub Copilot | GitHub | 50.9 | 31% | 4.1 | 100% | — | |
| 4 | GitHub Actions | — | 50.3 | 65% | 11.7 | 100% | 2 | |
| 5 | Git | — | 47.2 | 38% | 6.2 | 100% | 1 | |
| 6 | Bitbucket | Atlassian | 45.1 | 44% | 8.4 | 100% | — | |
| 7 | JetBrains IDEs | — | 43.3 | 10% | 2.6 | 67% | 2 | |
| 8 | IntelliJ IDEA | — | 42.4 | 21% | 4.5 | 83% | 9 | |
| 9 | Jenkins | Jenkins | 40.7 | 48% | 12.9 | 100% | 3 | |
| 10 | Django REST Framework | — | 39.8 | 4% | 2.0 | 33% | NEW | |
| 11 | Docker | Docker | 37.9 | 44% | 13.6 | 100% | 3 | |
| 12 | Express.js | — | 37.4 | 4% | 2.5 | 33% | 3 | |
| 13 | GitLab CI/CD | — | 37.1 | 42% | 13.3 | 100% | 7 | |
| 14 | PyCharm | JetBrains | 36.8 | 21% | 6.3 | 83% | 2 | |
| 15 | Kubernetes | — | 36.3 | 40% | 13.2 | 100% | — | |
| 16 | Cursor | Anysphere | 36.0 | 21% | 6.0 | 67% | 6 | |
| 17 | JetBrains Suite | — | 35.6 | 8% | 3.8 | 50% | NEW | |
| 18 | VS Code | Microsoft | 35.4 | 21% | 6.2 | 67% | 11 | |
| 19 | CircleCI | CircleCI | 34.7 | 40% | 14.9 | 100% | 1 | |
| 20 | WebStorm | JetBrains | 33.7 | 19% | 7.1 | 83% | NEW |
Overall Top 20 — mention frequency vs average rank. Split by this period's medians. Tap a point to see its name.