# Make a devtool agents want

> Source: <https://betocmn.com/blog/make-a-devtool-agents-want/>
> Published: 2026-06-26 05:48:14+00:00

# Make a devtool agents want

I created [Preseason.ai](https://www.preseason.ai/) because I was curious about how much power current LLMs have in recommending developer tools to people vibe coding their own web apps.

Vibe coding is obviously in a crazy growth phase, with some companies going from zero to hundreds of millions in revenue in less than a year. And with that, they are also pushing along a set of specific dev tool companies with a similar trajectory.

So I wanted to track this and built [an open-source benchmark](https://github.com/betocmn/preseason) for it.

Every day, Preseason sends prompts to the top open and closed-source LLMs from the main labs and measures which developer tools they recommend.

For example:

- What database do they recommend?
- What authentication provider?
- What UI framework?
- What email provider?
- What search provider?
- LLM Observability
- And so on.

It has been very interesting already.

**One example is email.**

As you can see below, there is still a lot of competition in this category, with SendGrid and other legacy providers still showing up strongly.

But you can also clearly see Resend as a modern startup that is very well designed, has great documentation, and seems to be growing very fast.

I would not be surprised if a meaningful part of that growth is now coming from LLM recommendations.

Imagine someone starting a new SaaS for a small business right now. They need to send emails to their customers. A lot of the time, the LLM is probably just recommending Resend and sending them a new customer.

That is pretty cool.

**Another example is databases.**

**Another example is search.**

**Another example is LLM observability.**

The project is [open source](https://github.com/betocmn/preseason), so please feel free to open a PR if you have a good idea for how to make the measurement more robust. I will keep tracking this as I go and post updates from time to time.
