AI in Our Workflow: What Actually Sticks

We tried just about every AI coding assistant released in 2025. Most got uninstalled after a week. Three earned a permanent spot in our workflow.

Code completion that knows your codebase

Generic suggestions are noise. Tools that index your repo and suggest patterns from your own code are genuinely useful every single day.

Test generation

"Generate tests for this controller" is the single highest-leverage prompt we run. The output is rarely perfect, but it\'s a great starting point.

Pull request reviewers

An automated reviewer that catches dumb stuff (missing null checks, unused imports, typos in error messages) frees up human reviewers for the interesting decisions.