AI Tools I Use

AI assistants and services that are part of my daily workflow

ChatGPT

Daily

Daily: general chat, drafting ideas

General-purpose conversational assistant for brainstorming, writing, and quick Q&A.

Chat

Gemini

Weekly

Weekly: second opinions, long-form summarization

Google's multimodal model, handy for cross-checking answers and summarizing long content.

Chat

DeepSeek

Daily

Daily: technical reasoning, coding Q&A

Open-weights reasoning model with strong technical answers and cheap API access.

Chat

Google AI Studio

Occasional

Occasional: model experiments, prompt tuning

Prototyping playground for Gemini models with structured outputs and code execution.

Chat

Grok

Occasional

Occasional: real-time info, fresh perspectives

xAI's assistant with real-time information and a direct tone, used as an alternative voice.

Chat

GLM (智谱)

Weekly

Weekly: multi-step web/automation tasks

Cloud agentic assistant that browses the web and drives GUI automation for multi-step tasks.

Agentic Cloud

Kimi (月之暗面)

Weekly

Weekly: long-context research, document analysis

Cloud agentic assistant known for long-context reading and research-heavy workflows.

Agentic Cloud

Qwen (通义)

Occasional

Occasional: Chinese tasks, agent workflows

Alibaba's cloud agentic assistant for Chinese-context tasks and agent workflows.

Agentic Cloud

opencode

Daily

Daily: autonomous coding, repo refactors

Open-source local coding agent that runs on your own machine with full repo access.

Agentic Local

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