Big players/LLMs aside (ChatGPT, Claude, Midjourney, Github Copilot, etc), what tool you found that stands out and really nails the prolem it supposed to help with. Could be very niche tool. Share as many as you wish.
- Goodtape (audio transcription made right)
- Wondershare Dynamics (AI MoCap from single video, using for sports analysis)
- On1 Pro Raw / Davinci Resolve AI features (game changers for my photo/video editing)
- ComfyUI/Comflowy (for image generation pipelines)
- Windsurf Editor (brand new, but gosh this is magic)
They nailed agentic part and costs of indexing/searching/chunking large repositories. This thing searches 2000+ files in like few seconds and as I understand it's really hard to hit the limits of Pro version.
And I'm so impressed how attentive it is to the process - like searching for examples of code usage in other files, or double checking itself. Once I told it that code doesn't produce the right result, and it checked everything and then concluded that it's most likely my judgement mistake and asked to open DevTools and copy request payload, so it can verify my claim :) (and it was right – was my mistake).
Cursor is a toy compared to this.
I also wanted to use other alternatives too, but I have gave up. They are like wastage of time for me now.
Chatgpt free version is far superior than Gemini free version.
Claude free version is too limited, else it matches Chatgpt.
“Blows me” is a sexual euphemism for someone getting their dick sucked.
“Blows my mind” means your head exploded because something was too awesome.
When I was reviewing my comment. I also found my comment missing something in it.
But honestly I really didn't know that "blows me" was something different.
My prof's teaching is not that good, he skips several things (not basic) while teaching & when I refer textbook, I don't get it.
Theorem consists of several statements, conditions, and understanding of those things where & why they are required, what happens without those conditions?
To understand theorems, I never asked it for providing examples. But I asked it to prove some difficult exercises from textbook and it was able to do it. In my experience, all this improves my learning.
Also sometimes for problem solving, I want to know, what are different techniques to solve that problem. And it does very good job.
I've never asked it to do basic additions or calculation, because I have heard from others, it does calculation wrong.
Some times it couldn't answer average question. But for my use case, I find it extremely beneficial.
New beta program?
I only provide internships for junior engineers for 3 months max to at least give them experience working in a company.
But in the long run, senior or junior, there will definately be less jobs for engineers in the future, I don't even think FAANG jobs are safe really.
ChatGPT 4o for improving technical writing
NotebookLM for freaking out my friends when I generate podcasts from their bios and tell them they've been featured on NPR.
Being unwilling to pay another $20/month for yet another AI, I've been resistant to trying it, assuming the Free tier is probably not that good or severely rate-limited.
I can do limitless experiments of all kinds with different LLModels locally on my machine, thanks to Ollama.
Perplixity is the product that replaced Google for me. It's fast, crisp, and reliable.
It's made me very lazy with my thinking and writing.