Comparing Major AI Coding Agents

// GitHub Copilot suggests code as you type
function calculateTotal(items) {
  // Copilot suggests:
  return items.reduce((sum, item) => sum + item.price, 0);
}

# Claude Code generates full functions
def fetch_user_data(user_id):
    # Returns user data from database or API
    pass

// Cursor suggests code inline
function calculateTotal(items) {
  return items.reduce((sum, item) => sum + item.price, 0);
}

// Windsurf suggests refactoring to use map and filter
const activeUsers = users.filter(user => user.isActive);
const userNames = activeUsers.map(user => user.name);

# Amazon Q Developer
def calculate_tax(income, rate):
    return income * rate

# Gemini Code Assist
def calculate_tax(income, rate):
    return income * rate

public class Calculator {
    <span class="highlight">public int add(int a, int b) {</span>
        <span class="highlight">return a + b;</span>
    }
}

def calculate_average(numbers):
    <span class="highlight">total = sum(numbers)</span>
    <span class="highlight">count = len(numbers)</span>
    <span class="highlight">return total / count</span>

aider --help
aider --yes --message "Create a simple Flask app with two endpoints"

cline --help
cline --task "Generate a React component for a todo list"

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const agents = [
  { id: 'agent-1', model: 'gpt-4', maxConcurrent: 2 },
  { id: 'agent-2', model: 'claude-3', maxConcurrent: 1 },
  { id: 'agent-3', model: 'gemini-pro', maxConcurrent: 3 }
];

const executionConfig = {
  parallelAgents: agents,
  maxParallelRequests: 5,
  queueTimeout: 30000
};

// Execute agents in parallel with rate limiting
async function runAgentsInParallel(config) {
  const results = await Promise.allSettled(
    config.parallelAgents.map(agent => {
      return executeAgent(agent);
    })
  );
  return results;
}