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5 AI-Powered Developer Tools Changing the Way We Work in 2025

brandon on January 18, 2025

Introduction: Whether you are excited about it or not, AI is not just a passing trend — it's here to stay. AI now helps developers write code, desi...
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Hossein Yazdi • Edited

It's nice to see you've mentioned the replacements as well. Thanks, mate! Here are more cool AI developer tools (All Free):

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brandon

This is a great list, I haven't heard of a few of these. Excited to check them out!

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Hossein Yazdi

Try them out! They're all lifesavers :)

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Jonas Scholz

do you think mintlify is worth the 150/month when there are so many great open source alternatives?

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brandon

Great question — I agree the price is a bit steep, but it depends on what you value!

Mintlify's out of the box docs look better than most of the open-source options out there by default. However, if you are able and willing to customize them, then I think an open-source solution is completely viable.

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Jonas Scholz

fair enough, I think im just too broke for that

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brandon

Yeah I hear that, what do you use currently? The Sliplane docs look great 😊

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Jonas Scholz

thank you :D thats astro starlight. Was super easy to setup and customize. I think I built that entire page in <2 hours including the data migration!

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nagasuresh dondapati

can you name a few open source alternatives ?

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Jonas Scholz

I use Astro starlight for this: docs.sliplane.io, i think scalar and vrite are both also open source

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brandon

Are there any tools that I am missing and I should check out?

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JohnByrne

Fantastic article!

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Hayleigh

Fantastic article!

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Asif Raza

want to keep this article in my pocket. good Article

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Asif Raza

nice article.....

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Tarun kale

This is amazing