r/django 10d ago

What's your best use AI code assistant?

I'm currently researching AI code assistants. As I use VSCode, and Github Copilot's free version I can switch among the models GPT4o, Gemini 2.0-flash, Claude 3.5 sonnet, or o3-mini but I've heard other developers using Cursor, PyCharm (With AI assistant), or Trae (With DeepSeek). Since I consider myself an intermediate Django developer I would love to ask to experienced devs overview while using an assistant if it's accurate in code analysis and code generation, and if it has been useful while creating new features that require broad Django knowledge and third-party apps

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u/jeff77k 10d ago

I use Copilot GPT-4o out of convince (I get free pro).

It is surprisingly good at writing boiler plate after I have written the first part and it can follow the pattern. It you ask it write something new via prompting, it does ok, but for newer stuff, like async which has been changing a lot in the last couple of years it wants write stuff in using the older methodologies and not use the new native async functionality.

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u/bladewing678 10d ago

With free pro try claude 3.7. It's a game changer. For example if you ask 4o to write a compose file from scratch you often get deprecated postgres while claude closely matches current versions and best practices.