The best free AI for coding in 2025 – only 3 make the cut now

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I’ve been around technology long enough that very little excites me, and even less surprises me. But shortly after OpenAI’s ChatGPT was released, I asked it to write a WordPress plugin for my wife’s e-commerce site. When it did, and the plugin worked, I was indeed surprised.

But that was 2023. We’ve come a long way since the early days of generative AI. More to the point, AI-assisted coding has come a tremendously long…