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The Breakpoint
Hey all, welcome back to The Breakpoint, our weekly newsletter covering everything in developer tools on Product Hunt. This edition: A new coding assistant from Google, a tool to make mind maps of your code, a deep dive into Anthropic’s latest feature to woo developers, and some trending discussions for developers.
The Latest
Five of the most interesting recent dev tool (or dev tool-adjacent) launches on the site.
Gemini Code Assist is an AI coding tool for VS Code and JetBrains, offering code completion and chat support. It works across 20+ languages with enterprise security features.
Basalt helps teams integrate AI into products with tools for prompt crafting, LLM testing, deployment, and performance monitoring.
TestAI runs automated tests for voice and chat agents, simulating real interactions to ensure reliability. It includes call analytics, trust and safety checks, and offers 10 free simulations.
Tach is an open-source tool that visualizes Python codebases, displaying dependency graphs and module usage. It also enforces first-party and package dependencies.
Claude 3.7 Sonnet is Anthropic’s latest AI model, designed for faster responses and better reasoning. They also launched Claude Code, a terminal-based AI coding assistant.
Claude steps Into the terminal
Anthropic just dropped Claude 3.7 Sonnet, a faster, smarter AI model, and Claude Code, a terminal-based assistant that helps developers automate coding tasks. Sonnet 3.7 promises better reasoning and speed, while Claude Code aims to be your AI-powered dev buddy—handling edits, testing, and version control straight from the command line.
For developers, this means more control. Sonnet 3.7 lets you tweak reasoning depth to balance speed and cost, and Claude Code could shift how devs work, making AI less of a helper and more of an active coder. But it’s still in early preview, so it’s not clear how hands-off developers can actually be.
The bigger question: Is this a small step toward AI-assisted coding, or are we looking at the early days of fully autonomous dev agents?
Here’s what’s trending for developers 🔥
