Agents & Tools
AI agents and tools are where the technology meets real work: coding assistants, autonomous agents, chatbots, writing and image tools, and the frameworks that let them act on your behalf. This section reviews and explains the products you can actually use today — and the new ones worth watching.
For each tool we look at what it does well, where it falls short, how it's priced and who it's really for, so you can tell a genuine productivity boost from a demo that doesn't survive contact with real tasks. We follow assistants like ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, coding agents such as Codex and Claude Code, and the rising wave of task‑specific and open‑source tools.
Whether you're a developer wiring agents into a workflow or a team picking your first AI assistant, this is where to compare options. Below you'll find reviews and guides to AI agents and tools.
OpenAI Acquires Ona: Persistent Cloud Workspaces for Codex Agents
OpenAI has announced the acquisition of Ona to give Codex secure, persistent, customer-controlled cloud environments for its coding agents. The deal is a clear signal that AI agents are moving away from short, one-shot prompts toward work that runs for hours or even days. For developers and engineering managers, it shifts the conversation from "how good is the model" to "how do we govern an agent that has its own workspace, tools, and time." The era of the long-running agent has an infrastructure problem, and OpenAI just bought a piece of the answer.