The Commoditisation of Your AI Teammate

The race for the best AI coding assistant just got turned on its head. It’s no longer about who has the smartest model, but who has the best price.

The Price of AI Coding Assistants Just Went to Zero

A new, free AI agent is outperforming the giants, signalling a massive shift in the developer tool market.

A new AI code agent called cto.new just launched, and it’s completely free. It’s not a watered-down version either; it gives you direct access to frontier models like OpenAI's GPT-5 and Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.5 without needing an API key. It claims to automate the entire software development lifecycle, from planning and bug detection to writing tests and deploying code.

But here's the thing: this isn't really about a new free tool. It’s about the commoditisation of the AI pair programmer. While it's outperforming giants like OpenAI and Stanford on benchmarks, its biggest impact is economic. It vaporises the price tag on a whole category of developer tools and puts immense pressure on paid incumbents to justify their existence. The moat is no longer the model, it's the workflow.

This matters for every developer and startup. Suddenly, access to a top-tier AI agent isn't a budget decision, it's a default. The game is no longer about who can afford the best AI, but who can integrate and manage these incredibly powerful (and now free) teammates most effectively to build something worthwhile.

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The Autonomous Workforce

Beyond just writing code, a new class of AI agents is starting to manage entire workflows.

Kadabra: Your new AI intern that actually gets things done

Describe a task in plain English and Kadabra builds, tests, and runs the entire workflow, connecting to tools like Slack and Notion. It’s about automating the entire operations rulebook, not just a single task.

TRAE SOLO: The AI agent that wants to be your entire dev team

TRAE SOLO positions itself as a 'Context Engineer' that turns abstract ideas into fully deployed applications. This isn't just an autocompleter; it's a multi-agent system that plans, writes, and tests code to handle the entire dev lifecycle autonomously.

Your Phone is Now a Dev Studio

The barrier to building and launching a functional app continues to evaporate.

YouWare Mobile: Your pocket-sized AI coding sidekick

This lets you build full-stack apps and websites using natural language or voice commands directly from your phone. They're calling it 'Vibe Coding', and it's aimed squarely at making development accessible to anyone with an idea.

Superapp: An AI engineer for your next iOS app

Superapp is an AI co-pilot focused on native iOS development. It codes in Swift, adheres to Apple's design guidelines, and hooks into Supabase automatically, aiming to kill the long development cycles for native apps.

Quick hits

Hathora: Making voice AI fast enough to feel human
Hathora is making voice AI interactions feel instantaneous by solving the ultra-low latency deployment problem, moving conversations from robotic to realistic.

Algebras: AI dubbing that actually understands culture
Algebras uses AI to dub video content with human-level precision, adapting lip-sync and cultural nuance for global audiences without the awkwardness.

Hyperlink by Nexa AI: Your files just got an AI brain that respects your privacy
Hyperlink brings Perplexity-style search to your local files, offering a powerful second brain that is 100% private and offline.

My takeaway

The real disruption isn't just AI getting smarter, but the cost of that intelligence plummeting to zero.

For years, access to the best models and agents was a competitive advantage you paid for. Now, with top-tier tools becoming free, that advantage has been neutralised. The new frontier is operational excellence—how you orchestrate these powerful, free agents will separate the winners from the losers.

This shift forces us to re-evaluate what we pay for in our software stacks. It’s no longer about raw capability, but about the integration, security, and unique workflows built on top. This is the new source of value.

What happens when the most powerful tools are table stakes for everyone?

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