Which AI coding tool should you use? It comes down to one question.

James Curran

6d • Intro's & General Discussion

Every week someone asks in the Facebook group..

"I want to build an app with AI. What do I use?"

Good question. There are a lot of choices. New ones show up all the time.

Here's the simple version.

There are two kinds of tools.

The first kind lives in your browser. Lovable, Replit, Bolt, Base44. You open a website, type what you want, and an app shows up. Nothing to download. Nothing to set up.

The second kind runs on your computer. Claude Code, Codex. You still just type what you want. But the files it makes go right onto your computer.

Start with the browser kind first.

If you don't know which one to pick, pick Lovable. Open it like any other website. Type what you want. You can see your app working in a few minutes. It's the easiest way to prove to yourself that this stuff is real.

Once you've done that.. switch to building on your computer.

Here's why.

First, the files are yours right away. They're already sitting on your computer. You don't have to go find them somewhere else.

Second, you can swap tools whenever you want. The files don't care which AI made them. If something better comes out next week, you just use that instead.

Third.. you're probably already paying for it. If you pay for Claude, Claude Code is already included. If you pay for ChatGPT, Codex is already included. No extra cost.

Which one should you use? Whichever one you're already paying for.

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James

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Which AI coding tool should you use? It comes down to one question.