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I'm using Jetbrains AI, ChatGPT 4 and Cursor.

Cursor is great for diving into third party codebases as it can read your whole project if you tell it to. So, let's say you're in some frontend file and don't understand why it behaves weird, it can point you to a different file (e.g. "Hey, there's a global CSS file that has an impact here!"). I hope Jetbrains will catch up, soon.

Jetbrains mainly differentiates from ChatGPT through their IDE integration. You can select code and ask it to refactor, find issues or chat about it. It proposes Git commit messages.

When I feel lazy, I use AI to create simple functions, e.g. "write a function that recursively reads all files in a given directory and returns all file names containing a given string". But most of the time it's more about dealing with existing code than implementing something new.