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The Latest

Five of the most interesting recent dev tool launches on the site. 

BetterBugs.io is a Chrome extension that lets you capture screens, rewind sessions, and let AI pinpoint solutions to bugs. It integrates with Jira and other tools so that your team can prioritize and comment on bugs. 

Gecko Security is an AI security engineer that identifies and fixes bugs in your code. It learns how your code works and creates targeted attack scenarios to exploit and fix weaknesses. It’s even discovered zero-day vulnerabilities in code that only humans could find before. 

Momen is a full-stack, no-code web app builder with a built-in AI agent development framework. It lets you quickly build and deploy MVPs, and comes with a handy Stripe integration for subscriptions and one-time payments. 

React Scan lets you scan your React app for problematic renders and performance, automatically detecting and highlighting buggy or slow components. It’s just JavaScript, so you can drop it in a script tag, npm, or basically anywhere else. 

BuildShip V2 lets you choose from thousands or prebuilt nodes or create your own to build AI-powered APIs. You can deploy with production-grade scalability, version control, code access, and more.

Open AI 🤝 Devs

OpenAI just made macOS devs’ lives a little easier (or at least they’re trying to). Last week, they rolled out “Work with Apps,” a feature that lets ChatGPT integrate directly with tools like Xcode, VS Code, and Terminal. The idea? No more copy-pasting code. Instead, ChatGPT can read and analyze your code straight from your dev tools, thanks to macOS’s Accessibility API.

This shiny new feature is exclusive to ChatGPT Plus and Team subscribers for now, but OpenAI promises it’ll hit Enterprise and Education plans soon. Of course, there’s a catch: it can’t handle images or videos yet. Baby steps, I guess.

“Our goal is to make ChatGPT an essential partner for developers,” said OpenAI (translation: we want to live rent-free in your workflow).

It’s a bold move to lock down their place in dev stacks, but can it handle the chaos of real-world projects, or will it choke on spaghetti code? And with all this API tinkering, is it setting up devs for a seamless ride or a new set of headaches? Only time (and Twitter rants) will tell.

Bonus

Workflows can always be better, here’s a pro-tips crowdsourced from the dev community:

Using Replit Agent? After the agent’s done, open an AI tap and ask GPT-4o or Claude 3.5 to explain the code to you, step-by-step. Then use AI chat to make changes. It’s a fast, iterative way to improve your coding. (h/t Jeff Burke)