Blog
Thoughts on
building Axon
Engineering deep-dives, design decisions, and honest reflections from the team.
Why we built Axon
Company
The story behind Axon — why we started it, what we got wrong early on, and what we're building toward.
How Axon indexes your codebase
Engineering
A technical deep-dive into how Axon indexes your codebase, why it's fast, and what it means for suggestion quality.
Designing Axon's editor UI
Design
The design decisions behind Axon's editor UI — why we chose inline over popups, how we think about color, and what we're still figuring out.
The state of AI coding tools in 2025
Industry
An honest look at what's actually improved in AI coding tools over the past two years, what's still broken, and where things are heading.
Shipping Axon agents
Engineering
What it actually took to ship Axon agents — the technical challenges, what we got wrong, and what we learned about human-AI collaboration.
What good onboarding looks like for developer tools
Product
Why most developer tool onboarding fails, what we tried at Axon, and what we learned about teaching through doing.
Why we built Axon
Company
The story behind Axon — why we started it, what we got wrong early on, and what we're building toward.
How Axon indexes your codebase
Engineering
A technical deep-dive into how Axon indexes your codebase, why it's fast, and what it means for suggestion quality.
Designing Axon's editor UI
Design
The design decisions behind Axon's editor UI — why we chose inline over popups, how we think about color, and what we're still figuring out.
The state of AI coding tools in 2025
Industry
An honest look at what's actually improved in AI coding tools over the past two years, what's still broken, and where things are heading.
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Start writing better code today
Join 10,000+ developers shipping faster with Axon.
Start writing better code today
Join 10,000+ developers shipping faster with Axon.