Discovering Different AI-coding Assistants

Saturday, October 18th

I was starting to clean different datasets that I had installed earlier to assemble a larger dataset that I could use for my AI model for my project, but realizing that creating the programs in order to clean and organize such data was tedious and time-wasting (probably), I turned to AI to help (ironic, isn’t it?).

However, there are tons of AI models that can help with programming and code, so what was I supposed to use?

For starters, people mentions models such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT 5 models and Claude Code to help with programming, as well as VSCode’s very own Copilot agent that could help with context analyzing (because coding/programming is all about context!). That’s when I did some more research this evening, and I found an interesting VSCode Extension that works with VSCode’s Copilot: it’s called Co Debugger AI. It mainly focuses on which factors in your code is really causing you problems by investigating logic flows, resources management, etc. and context is a BIG part of how solving errors and debugging can be done, and that’s no different for this AI tool.

I decided to download it and take it out for a spin later.

In the meantime, I experimented with different AI tools such as Claude and Grok to help me code, where I tested out cross-checking sample code to help me create functional code.

Sunday, October 19th

So here it is: this is what it looks like with having three AI coding assistants in my code editor at once (Copilot on the right, Co Debug AI on the top, and Six on the left):

Copilot has been relatively useful, while I haven’t used Six as much yet.

Also, I researched more into AI assistants for different use cases (using Perplexity.ai ironically…)