I went down a rabbit hole this morning reading three different late-2025 Juejin roundups side by side, all of which purported to answer what AI to use in 2026, and what crystallized for me is that the three of them are actually answering three different questions on three different scorecards with no shared bridge between any of them. The first was a December picking piece that ranked eight tools on a five-axis decimal scorecard — CodeBuddy 9.6 at the top, Blackbox 7.2 at the bottom, with Cody, Ghostwriter, Codeium, Tabnine, CodeWhisperer, and JetBrains AI Assistant in between. The second was the 2025年度盘点 that named Gemini as 首选 for 多模态 plus 超长上下文, ChatGPT as 首选 for 通用性强, and Claude as 其他 for 代码能力强, with all three priced at 140元 per month on a yuan-mode monthly bill. The third was a November frontend piece that named Cursor as 综合能力第一, GitHub Copilot as 最佳生态集成, Codeium as 性价比之王, and V0.dev as 前端UI生成专家, with a five-star rating column tacked onto each row. Three posts, three scorecards, one reader question, and not a single one of them produces a recommendation I can compare against the other two.
The angle I want to put down is that all three roundups claim to answer the same question — what AI tool should an engineer use in 2026 — but each is sorting on a different axis, and the cross-axis bridge has never been published. The decimal piece sorts on code completion plus code generation plus 自主代理 plus 多模态 plus team collaboration, and prints its verdict as 9.6/10. The yuan-mode annual review sorts on 推荐 plus 核心优势 plus 访问门槛 plus 月费 and prints 首选 or 其他, with the monthly bill reading 140元 across Gemini Pro, ChatGPT Plus, and Claude Pro. The November frontend piece sorts on 综合能力 plus 生态集成 plus 性价比 and prints a five-star rating. The structural tell is that the three pieces agree on a handful of names — Cursor, GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude — and disagree on what those names mean. Cursor is 综合能力第一 in the November piece and absent from the December decimal scorecard. ChatGPT is 首选 in the annual review and absent from the November piece. CodeBuddy is the highest-decimal in the December piece and absent from both of the others.
