10 AI Tools Every Developer Should Try in 2026

The reality of modern development is brutal. You open your laptop at 9 AM with a clear plan: finish that feature by lunch. But first, there's a standup meeting that runs long. Then Slack explodes with questions about yesterday's deployment. Your IDE throws a cryptic error that sends you down a Stack Overflow rabbit hole. By noon, you haven't written a single line of production code. According to Stack Overflow's 2024 Developer Survey , which polled over 65,000 developers worldwide, the average d