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Top 10 Best AI Coding Agents for Vibe Coders 2025

Emmanuel Mumba on May 30, 2025

In 2025, testing software isn't just about finding bugs — it's about working smarter. With the rise of powerful and accessible AI tools, Vibe coder...
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Nevo David

Growth like this is always nice to see. Kinda makes me wonder - what keeps stuff going long-term? Like, beyond just the early hype?

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Emmanuel Mumba

Yeah, good question. I think sustained growth usually comes down to strong community, consistent value, and creators who keep iterating based on feedback—not just riding the hype wave.

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Andre

Been using Lovable stacks, but often having to get other LLMs to stop it going around and around in loops. Has anyone else also experienced this?

Also been playing around with using Zed IDE alongside my own LLM API keys.

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Emmanuel Mumba

Yeah, I’ve had the same issue with Lovablen especially when working on more complex logic. It tends to loop or hallucinate unless I intervene manually or switch to a more controllable LLM.

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Kevin Wasonga

such an awesome break-down, thanks

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Luk

Pretty useless comparison... Just a lot of buzzwords ...
Written by AI?? Lol ...

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Vladimir Arevshatyan

OG clearly gas 0 knowledge in development and engineering

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Nathan Tarbert

Growth like this is always nice to see. Kinda makes me wonder - what keeps stuff going long-term? Like, beyond just the early hype?

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Emmanuel Mumba

Exactly. I’ve seen a few projects explode early, then stall out because they never found a real user base. The ones that stick usually have a clear purpose and keep evolving based on what devs actually need.

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Violet Brown

you should add Vitara as well in this list of best AI coding agents for Vibe coders. It is a vibe coding tool with free version and many useful features.

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Dream

When AI coding agents start debugging my code before I even write it, I’ll know we’ve really made it. Great roundup—can’t wait to accidentally ship fewer bugs in 2025!

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Emmanuel Mumba

Exactly! When agents start auto-fixing bugs I would’ve written, I’ll finally feel like a 10x dev by doing nothing.

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Vladimir Arevshatyan

That is never happening mate, stop dreaming

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Jax Web

I have seen it happen with Copilot in agent mode with Claude 4, developing a wordpress plugin where tests were developed and executed and reviewed and used for correcting flaws in the code, it has just written - without me asking for them.

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Tokyo Dal

Nice list, thank you.

I also make a curated list on ai coding tools:

tokyo-dal/awesome-ai-coding-tools

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Rowland

The title said top 10 but we were lucky to get 20!

Thank you for this. 👍🏾

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Emmanuel Mumba

Love hearing that glad it brought value. Thanks for checking it out

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Shlomi Masuri

What about Tab8
Addon for IDEs
Support multiple LLMs
Integration with jira
Code completion

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