You don't have a model problem. You have a decision problem.
There are now 300+ ranked LLMs and seven serious coding agents fighting for your team's attention. Most articles tell you everything is great. This one tells you what to actually use and why.
First: The Two Things Killing Productivity Right Now
Too many tools, no system. 70% of engineers juggle 2–4 tools simultaneously. Without clear task routing, you're not multiplying output, you're multiplying context-switching.
Speed without guardrails backfires. AI-assisted code has roughly 1.7× more issues than human-written code when not paired...