📰 Dev.to · Proddraft

Opus 4.8, Gemini 3.5, GPT-5.5, and a $965B valuation. The LLM race accelerated into something unrecognizable from six months ago.

I tested both platforms to build Nova, an AI content creator. One cost $24/month. The other quoted $89/month.

I let Claude Code build features, debug production issues, and refactor code for a month. Here's what it's actually good at.

Cursor and Copilot get all the attention. But Windsurf, Cline, Aider, and Zed are quietly building something different.

Three AI coding tools, three real projects, three weeks. No feature lists — just which one shipped features and which one talked about shipping features.