12 Developer Tools Guide
Practical productivity stack for daily shipping
About 12 Developer Tools Guide
Curated guide to 12 developer tools that actually work for shipping code daily. Practical productivity stack recommendations from real builders.
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- November 28, 2025
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See all →- Don't Write Markdown Files for Your Coding Agent. Write ScriptsRules in AGENTS.md are suggestions. A script with a pass or fail result is a constraint.
- An Agent Said It Deployed. The Containers Were a Day OldFour claims an agent makes about a deploy, and the command that proves each one.
- Jev + Opus: Frontier-Accuracy LLM Judging at 4x Lower CostHightouch's test: a Jev plus Opus hybrid judge matched frontier accuracy at over 4x lower cost.
- Agent Skills Drift: A Feedback Loop for Keeping One TrueAgent skills go stale in six ways while their checks stay green. A step-by-step loop to catch it.
- Four Ways a Test Can Lie to YouWhat 530 agent-written tests taught one developer: checks can be green, or red, and mean nothing.