Kite

Kite was one of the first AI coding assistants, offering line and multi-line completions for Python and other languages inside popular editors. It had around 500,000 monthly developers. It was aimed at developers, startups and technical teams who want to build software faster. Kite stopped development in November 2022 and its plugins no longer work. The founder explained that developers would not pay for it and the technology was not yet good enough. Much of its code was open-sourced. Use a modern AI coding assistant instead. If you need something similar today, popular options include GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Tabnine. Lesson for users: always keep your own copies of important data when you rely on any AI service, because products can change owners or close with little notice.