## I Tested 5 AI Coding Assistants for a Month: Here’s What I Actually Found Compare five AI coding assistants across real tasks to find which tool fits your workflow. The pitch is always the same: describe what you want, watch the code appear, ship faster. After a month of putting five of the most-discussed AI coding assistants through real work — a legacy refactor, a greenfield API build, and a few debugging sessions I'd rather forget — the honest answer is messier than any vendor demo suggests. Each tool carries a different philosophy about what AI assistance should look like. Cursor wants…