Over 7.5 million developers now use an open-source coding agent that no single AI company built, and the compiler feedback loop running silently inside it does something every paid rival still skips

Most people who write code for a living have a tool sitting in their editor right now that costs somewhere between $10 and $40 a month, routes every line they type through a company’s servers, and works with exactly one AI model: the one that company chose. That is the arrangement that tens of millions ... Read more