I get asked "how is Codens different from Devin / Cursor / Sweep" enough that I want to write the honest version once. The short answer is that these four tools live on different parts of the development lifecycle, and most of the people asking the question are actually trying to figure out which bottleneck they have — not which product is "best." So this is the comparison I'd want if I were on the buying side. Quick disclaimer up top: I'm building Codens, the harness in this comparison — happy to talk about it but the goal here is genuine comparison, not pitch. Where the others are stronger I'll say so, and where Codens has weaknesses (smaller customer base, opinionated workflow, JP-first market) I'll call them out in the same paragraph as the strengths. What each one is solving for Before any feature comparison, the more useful framing is: what problem was each of these tools designed around? Because the design decisions that follow — pricing, surface area, where the user clicks first — all flow from that.…