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Continue Made AI Coding Yours. Then It Joined Cursor.
Continue gave developers a rare luxury: the freedom to choose the model behind their coding assistant. The project is now a 35,000-star time capsule, acquired by the rival whose black-box approach it once challenged.
Augment Code Wants the Whole Codebase, Not Just Your Cursor
The coding assistant that made its name remembering giant repositories now wants to run the whole software factory. Its context is sharp; the buying decision is about whether your team needs the factory.
Blackbox AI Wants Every Model in One Room
The coding assistant that began by rescuing snippets now conducts whole rooms of rival models. It is fast, useful, sprawling - and worth trying with both hands on the wheel.
OpenHands
OpenHands, built by All Hands AI, is an open-source, model-agnostic platform for building and running AI coding agents that can complete entire software engineering tasks - from fixing bugs and upgrading dependencies to large-scale refactors and pull-request reviews. Started in 2024 as the open-source project OpenDevin, it has grown to 65,000+ GitHub stars and 3M+ downloads, spanning a Python SDK, CLI, local GUI, and OpenHands Cloud. The company raised an $18.8M Series A led by Madrona in November 2025 to bring secure, transparent, self-hostable coding agents to enterprises.
Woz
Woz (WOZCODE) is a Claude Code plugin built by MIT engineers Ben Collins and Brad Eckert that cuts AI coding costs by 25-55% and speeds up most tasks by 30-40%. Instead of letting Claude Code burn tokens on bloated built-in file operations, WOZCODE replaces them with smarter, leaner alternatives - three specialized agents (code, explore, plan) that do more with less. It installs in two commands, runs locally with no data exfiltration, and works alongside your existing Claude subscription. Backed by Y Combinator (W25) and a $6M seed round, Woz is building the efficiency layer that makes AI-assisted development economically viable at scale.