2025 BairesDev
Developers' Choice Awards

Best AI Coding
Assistant

And the award goes to…

GitHub Copilot

GitHub’s context-aware AI assistant featuring deep integration with PRs, issues, and workflows.

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About the Awards

Our engineers chose GitHub Copilot for its suggestion quality and deep integration. They cited inline completions that don't break flow, IDE coverage across VS Code to JetBrains, and enterprise features that handle security and compliance without disrupting existing workflows.

Developer Insights

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Its seamless in-editor suggestions cut boilerplate, help me explore alternative implementations instantly, and keep context across files.

Monica Dodla

Data Analytics Engineer, BairesDev

10 years of experience

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It can connect to different models, and using the agent mode makes code modifications a lot easier.

Mersy Ruiz

Database Administrator, BairesDev

11 years of experience

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GitHub Copilot is super helpful, especially with unit tests.

Alexander Arias González

R&D Developer, BairesDev

14 years of experience

Honorable Mentions

Claude Code (Sonnet)

AI model recognized for strong reasoning on complex, multi-file refactors and explainable code support.

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Claude models are the best for coding. They're my default when using Cursor.

Diego Nobre

Growth and Website Team Lead, BairesDev

20 years of experience

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Google Gemini (Code)

Context-aware code generation with deep integration across Google Cloud and Vertex AI tooling.

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Google Gemini understands the code we are working in, not just the syntax. It scales effortlessly with large repositories and real project context thanks to its long context window.

Federico Schwarzbock

Engineering Manager, BairesDev

14 years of experience

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About our Voters.

4K+

Full-Time Engineers

2M+

Annual Applications

10+

Average Years of Experience

We're a distributed team of over 4,000 full-time, senior-level developers. Every year, over 2 million applications are reviewed to identify the top engineering talent who join BairesDev.

This gives us unparalleled technical coverage and depth. Our teams span over 100 technologies, and we've used that expertise across 1,400+ projects since 2009.

For this award, votes in each category were cast by developers with direct, hands-on experience using these tools. These nominations came directly from senior practitioners building software at scale.

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