The best AI assistant for Laravel devs

I think chatGPT is good. In some exceptional cases all AI assistant unable to provide accurate solution.

You can also use blockBox.

I've been using Codeium and aside from the annoyance that every other time the Neovim plugin updates, it needs me to re-enter my API key, it seems pretty helpful. Seems to have decent context of my coding style and emulates it damn near to a tee, almost surprising me sometimes and how much it can predict what I was about to do next.

This is very essential information.

I have been trying Cursor AI recently with some filament projects. I am an amateur programmer, I just make some simple apps to help streamline my job, so no guru talking here. I have been supplying the same instructions to : GPT-4o, Sonnet-35 and Deepseek-coder and by far Sonnet produced the very best results for my (limited) experience. Cursor goes a little beyond copilot, really helpful for when you're stuck... (and it happens to me quite often) !

i second cursor, where you can try different AIs infact their free cursor-mini also does wonders.

I have BASIC laravel development skills, and ive been using Claude AI to create everything i need, its projects feature for the paid account helps because it understands your code and structure.. annoying thing is i hit my limits a lot :( and its helping me understand the code better as i go.

After a year of testing github copilot and Tabnine i suggest you to take Tabnine for a test. It's doing a good job with its suggestions and predictions. It's more pricey than the other tools, but they also have a free tier which is a little bit less advanced

I'm a beginner and when I learned the fundamentals I used VS Code with Codeium and it did an amazing job to explain what the code does and fundamentals. It really helped with learning. Also tested Windsurf that is a coding IDE like Cursor. Using with Claude 3.5 Sonnet is a great experience. The annoying part is the base model that was trained on data from the time of Laravel 8-9 so using the free tier is bad experience with Laravel. However you might be able to workaround this by downloading Laravel docs and add it to your project folder so you can prompt Windsurf to follow the docs.

If you want to get a quick start with Cursor, try and watch this course: https://laraveldaily.com/course/cursor-ai-laravel

It will blow your mind.

have any of you tried using kilo code? i see that it has a vs code feature. i just want feedback from this community

I'm using Lary on Laracast and it works fine.

You can also try claude.ai.

I have used Junie, Claude.ai and Claude Code. By far the best experience I have had is with Claude code. I can't recommend it enough. Sonnet seems to be the leading model for coding at the moment.