5 New AI Tools for Developers Worth Testing This Month

If you search for new AI tools for developers in 2026, you mostly get the same useless list posts. Fifty tools. Zero point of view. Half of them are wrappers. The other half look impressive for ten minutes and then never make it into your real workflow. I care less about which tool is trending and more about whether it survives contact with an actual project. This month, I kept coming back to five things that feel real enough to test properly. Not because they are perfect, but because they solve