Inspired by John Lindquist, a leading voice you should without question learn from on state-of-the-art AI tips and tricks via screencasts, I'm a big fan of upskilling my tooling, so I decided to post my current stack.
purpose: effortless voice dictation in every application
use cases: responding to emails, writing documentation, writing these blog posts, and dictating prompts in my Zed editor and agent models that I’m constantly swapping. Works on iOS as well.
cost: $12/mo with student discounts
purpose: lightning fast browser with builtin AI
use case: gathering summaries on writing and videos, deep dive explanations on technical docs and source code. can chat with all your tabs and use this for anything really, but these are my primary uses.
cost: tbd with beta open to arc browser users
purpose: shortcuts to all your applications via cmd+k. what spotlight should have been
use case: too many to list out here, but would encourage taking a look their hype channel on usecases by your role. will be posting my extensions on https://artivilla.com shortly
cost: mostly free with AI prop tiers or BYOK
purpose: Zapier for developers, just by writing simply Typescript
use case: creating discord bots, slack bots, X bots, all sorts of bots and simple interface apps. my newsletter aggregator was vibe coded in a matter of days that runs on valtown. view my channel to watch me vibe code a feature.
cost: $10/mo
purpose: remember everything. organize nothing.
use case: it goes without saying, but it’s impossible to recall all the products, tools, and sites I can instantly bring up. It literally remembers whatever is at the tip of my fingers.
cost: many tiers with $5 lowest
purpose: fastest simplest editor on this planet
use case: every professional programmer needs an editor even if you're making simple changes. bring your own keys or use their inbuilt models. or use no AI at all.
cost: free or AI plans w/ token usage
purpose: hosting customer facing applications that can scale infinity
use case: acts like my platform engineer. automated database backups, multi regions, horizontal scaling, logging and traces, monitoring, deployments, PR previews, multiple environments, observability and the rest.
cost: free with paid tiers
purpose: recordings
use case: screencast recordings for raising an agent
purpose: terminal
purpose: virtual branching
use cases: quickly spin up virtual branches and manage multiple pull requests, without getting lost in git branch names or git stashes.
purpose: leading model for client-side code and multi agents