I Tested 5 AI Coding Tools on Real Work. Here Are the Results.

I Tested 5 AI Coding Tools on Real Work. Here Are the Results. I gave Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, Windsurf, and Aider the same 3 real tasks. The results were not even close. AI coding tools are everywhere. GitHub Copilot. Cursor. Claude Code. Windsurf. Aider. Every week there is a new one, and every review says "this tool changed my life." I don't trust those reviews. Most test on toy problems — a todo app, sorting an array, fetching from an API. That is not how real software works. So...