AI coding tools are starting to look similar on the surface: they all offer chat, agents, code edits, terminal awareness, and some form of autocomplete. But the real differences are in the workflow. The question is less “which one has AI?” and more “where does the AI live in your development process?” For me, VS Code is still the baseline. It is flexible, extensible, familiar, and easy to compose
You have probably seen a file named “go.sum” in almost every Go project you have worked on. You may have even seen it change every time you run “go mod tidy”. But do you actually know what it does? It is one of those files that works silently in the background, and some developers never stop to think about it. The “go.sum” file is one of those files you never really interact with directly, but it