An Opinionated Guide on the Best AI Coding Tools in 2025 | Colin Matthews
Picking the best tool amongst Bolt, v0, Lovable, Replit, Cursor, and Windsurf from prototyping to production apps
Dear subscribers,
Today, I want to share a new episode with Colin Matthews.
There are so many AI coding tools that it’s hard to know where to start. That’s why I partnered with Colin (taught 1,000+ students to build AI apps) to demo and find the best tool for each use case:
Text to prototype
Figma to prototype
JavaScript game
Full-stack personal app
Professional development
We gave Bolt, v0, Lovable, Replit, Cursor, and Windsurf the same prompts and got some surprising results. Watch the video to see them for yourself:
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Colin and I talked about:
(06:43) Text-to-prototype: Bolt vs. V0 vs. Lovable vs. Replit
(09:09) The surprising winner for Figma-to-prototype
(17:30) Building a “2D Zelda” game in a single prompt
(24:28) Professional development: Cursor vs. Windsurf
(32:57) The best AI coding tools for each use case
(35:34) Our best predictions for the AI coding market
(39:29) Can non-engineers really build production apps with AI?
Text to prototype: Bolt for speed and flexibility
Bolt is our pick here. When prototyping, you want something that looks great to show to users ASAP. Bolt was by far the fastest in our testing: