10x Dev Stack

A curated list of AI-powered coding tools, agents, and extensions that are changing the way we build software.

IDE Extensions • Autonomous Agents • Chat Interfaces • Terminal Tools • Code Review

🌟 Introduction

Stop drowning in AI noise. This is a filtered, high-signal toolkit for developers who want to ship code 10x faster. We track the tools that actually work—from bleeding-edge agents to privacy-focused local stacks.

🔥 Current Favorites

• Windsurf IDE - The first agentic IDE with deep context awareness
• Claude 3.5 Sonnet - Still the SOTA for coding tasks
• Bolt.new - Build full-stack apps from prompts in the browser
• Model Context Protocol - Connect AI to your entire dev environment
• Aider - AI pair programming in your terminal

🏆 Recommended Stacks

Don't know where to start? Try these combinations based on your needs.

Profile	The Stack	Why?
The "Bleeding Edge"	Windsurf + Claude 3.5 Sonnet + V0	The absolute highest level of automation available today.
The "Privacy First"	VS Code + Continue + Ollama (DeepSeek)	100% local, no data leaves your machine. Enterprise safe.
The "Speed Demon"	Cursor + Supermaven	Cursor for the features, Supermaven for the instant low-latency autocomplete.
The "Browser Builder"	Bolt.new + Lovable	Build full-stack apps without opening an IDE. Perfect for rapid prototyping.

🧭 Visual Stack Selector

graph TD
  subgraph Stacks["🏆 Choose Your Weapon"]
    direction LR
    A[Bleeding Edge] -->|Windsurf + Claude + V0| A1(Max Automation)
    B[Privacy First] -->|VS Code + Continue + Ollama| B1(Local & Secure)
    C[Speed Demon] -->|Cursor + Supermaven| C1(Instant Latency)
    D[Browser Builder] -->|Bolt.new + Lovable| D1(Rapid Prototyping)
  end

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🧰 Resources & Templates

Don't just read about tools—use our optimized configurations.

• 📂 System Prompts Library - Copy/paste these into Claude or ChatGPT for better results.
• 📝 .cursorrules Template - Drop this into your project root to make Cursor 10x smarter.

🏗️ Ready-to-Use Project Scaffolds

Start any project in seconds with production-ready configurations:

• Vite + React + TypeScript - Modern frontend with Tailwind and optimized tooling
• FastAPI Agent Service - Python backend for AI agents with Docker support
• Next.js Full-Stack App - Next.js 14 with App Router and TypeScript
• Express.js REST API - Node.js API with security middleware
• Minimal Local RAG - AI data retrieval in 50 lines of Python
• MCP Server Starter - Connect Claude to custom tools

👉 View All Scaffolds | Copy-Paste Scripts

📚 Other Resources

• 🚀 Quick Start Demo - 5-minute guide to building with the 10x Dev Stack.
• ⚔️ Battle of the IDEs - A detailed breakdown of Cursor vs Windsurf vs Copilot vs Cline.

🧪 The "Advanced" Frontier

For those who want to build the future, not just use it.

• 🔌 Model Context Protocol (MCP) - Connect AI to your Database, Git, and Local Filesystem. The new standard.
• 🏴‍☠️ The Hacker's Guide - "Grey hat" techniques for context stuffing, prompting hacks, and optimization.

🚀 IDE Extensions

Tools that live inside your editor (VS Code, JetBrains, etc.).

• GitHub Copilot - The OG AI pair programmer. Suggested code and entire functions in real-time.
• Cursor - An AI-first code editor built on top of VS Code. Features built-in chat, codebase indexing, and smart rewrites.
• Supermaven - Long-context code completion tool that feels incredibly fast.
• Codeium - Free AI code completion and chat. Good alternative to Copilot.
• Windsurf - The first "Agentic IDE" by Codeium. Deep context awareness and flows.
• Cline - (Formerly Claude Dev) Autonomous coding agent right inside VS Code.
• Roo Code - A community-driven fork of Cline with bleeding-edge features using regular updates.
• PearAI - Open-source AI code editor alternative to Cursor.
• CodiumAI - Focuses on generating meaningful tests and code analysis to prevent bugs.
• Continue - An open-source autopilot for software development—bring your own LLM (local or cloud).

✨ Web AI Builders (Hot Trend)

Tools that generate full-stack web apps from a single prompt.

• Bolt.new - StackBlitz's AI that generates, runs, and deploys full-stack apps in the browser.
• Lovable - "GPT Engineer" on steroids. Precise, beautiful UI generation that integrates with Supabase.

🤖 Autonomous Agents

Agents that can plan, execute, and debug tasks with minimal human intervention.

• Plandex - An open source AI coding engine for complex, multi-file tasks.
• Devin - The first widely publicized fully autonomous AI software engineer.
• OpenDevin - An open-source platform for autonomous AI software engineers.
• AutoGPT - One of the first experimental open-source attempts to make GPT-4 fully autonomous.
• Goose - An open source AI agent that helps you build better software, faster.
• Sweep - AI junior developer that handles GitHub issues and pull requests (Note: discontinued but historically significant).

💬 Chat Interfaces

Web-based or standalone chat tools optimized for coding.

• ChatGPT (OpenAI) - The most popular generic chatbot, highly capable in coding with GPT-4o.
• Claude 3.5 Sonnet (Anthropic) - Widely considered the current SOTA for coding tasks due to its reasoning and large context window.
• v0.dev - Generative UI system by Vercel. Describe your interface and get React/Tailwind code.
• Replit AI - Integrated AI coding assistant within the Replit cloud IDE.

💻 Terminal Tools

AI tools that live in your CLI.

• Warp - A modern terminal with AI command search and assistance built-in.
• Wave - Open source, cross-platform terminal built for seamless AI workflows.
• Aider - AI pair programming in your terminal. Edits code in your local git repo.
• Open Interpreter - A natural language interface for your computer's terminal.

📝 Code Review & Documentation

• Mintlify - Automated documentation writer that analyzes your code.
• DeepSource - Static analysis and automated code review to fix issues before they merge.

🔎 AI Search Engines for Devs

Stop Googling. Use these for direct technical answers.

• Phind - AI search engine optimized for developers.
• Perplexity - Great for referencing documentation and getting cited answers.
• Grep.app - (Not AI, but essential) Search across half a million git repos instantly.

🏠 Local LLM Runners

Run models like Llama 3 and DeepSeek locally on your machine.

• Ollama - The easiest way to get up and running with local LLMs (Mac/Linux/Windows).
• LM Studio - Great GUI for discovering and running local models.

🧠 LLMs for Code

Open weights models specifically trained for coding tasks.

• Llama 3 - Meta's open source model, highly capable in coding tasks.
• StarCoder2 - Developed by BigCode, excellent for code generation.
• DeepSeek Coder - A strong open-source model that rivals proprietary models in benchmarks.
• CodeLlama - A family of large language models for code by Meta.

📚 Learning Resources

• Prompt Engineering Guide - Learn how to talk to these models effectively.
• Andrej Karpathy's "Intro to Large Language Models" - Essential viewing for understanding the tech.

🌍 Community & Success Stories

Join thousands of developers who've transformed their workflow with these tools.

💡 User Testimonials

"Switched to Windsurf + Claude and cut my development time in half. This stack is incredible!" - @dev_hacker

"The scaffolds saved me hours of setup. Finally, boilerplates that work with AI tools!" - @code_ninja

🤝 Community Contributions

• Submit a Tool: Found a useful AI tool? Open an issue to suggest it.
• Share Your Stack: Have a unique combination that works? Contribute to the recommended stacks.
• Improve Scaffolds: Add more boilerplate templates for popular frameworks.

💬 Discussion

Join the conversation about AI-powered development tools and share your experiences.

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please read the contribution guidelines first.

📋 Changelog

See what's new in the latest versions: CHANGELOG.md

📜 License

MIT License