Time lost searching the internet for new tools …. E-TOO-Much. Chances are that you are noticing a lot of new AI tools pop up in your social feeds. You are really happy when you discover a great new one, but the discovery process feels off and artisanal. It encourages people to keep scouting the internet and potentially sharing their own lists among friends and colleagues.
Introduction
🎧 Listen to the full conversation with Patrick Debois on the AI Native Dev podcast here.
Announcing the AI Native Developer Tool Landscape
We're excited to announce our brand new AI Native Developer Tool Landscape that keeps track of what is new in the intersection of AI and the whole Software Delivery Lifecycle. Ranging from tools that help you with product prototyping, development, quality assurance, DevOps, and security, we've got you covered.
Future Enhancements
Challenges in Building the Landscape
Community Involvement
Conclusion
This is, of course, only the beginning. We’ll be enhancing the landscape with reviews (and hot takes) and allow it to become the single stop to find the tool that you need to get your job done. Whether you are a developer, a researcher, or even a VC, we got you covered!
A few words on lessons learned building out the landscape categories:
- Naming is hard, and it turns out naming categories are too. We decided to stick to the current terminology of the SDLC domain and put tools first in a general domain.
- Now, some tools span multiple categories and if that happens, we can put tools in a few different sections, but it should be the exception for now.
- We also looked at grouping tools by features but we quickly learned that features can be implemented at different levels of ease and maturity, making it difficult to make the distinction between them.
- Some categories will be “overcrowded” as they are in full expansion, and those categories will be very big to show. We will sort tools based on a mixture of popularity and newness and cap the number of tools shown by default. You can expand the category to explore all of them.
We are big believers in learning in the open. By making the list public and allowing others to contribute to it, we can share the burden of keeping it up to date. We have the vendors participating to keep their information up to date. But we also count on your help to expand the list and keep the list current. You can send a pull request to update our repo.
And now with the catalog, to keep up to date, you can simply visit our website if you want to discover new tools, or subscribe to our mailing list.
Happy tool sharing!