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Re: Ask HN: What useful AI tools do you use every day?

#11
Other than the obvious heavyweights, here are a few others:

1. notebooklm for deep-dive into any document

2. Notion AI for QA on my own documents (works really well)

3. cartesia.ai for very good and cheap audio generation

4. veed.io for automated shorts generation with voiceovers and background imagery

5. zenquery.app for data analysis on my large csv and json files

6. regrowth.so for building my own brand on twitter by copying others

7. syft.ai for news summaries (actually works)

Re: Ask HN: What useful AI tools do you use every day?

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1. ChatGPT I use it mostly to dump quick ideas and then expand them later by using it as my thinking partner. Also I use chatgpt for brainstorming ideas for marketing campaigns, writing copies etc. I have few custom GPTs created for my every use case 2. Claude I use Claude projects for writing articles and for SEO optimisation 3. Cursor I use Cursor for coding daily. Now quite used to the flow it creates and makes my…

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If it works it ain't stupid (or wrong). I can imagine dozens of setups where such tools can bring massive velocity in small/single man team, ie indie/mobile game development

Re: Ask HN: What useful AI tools do you use every day?

#18
I have an actual rubber duck on my desk, which means I only use AÍ for stuff like “refactor and write tests for this stuff Ducky and I designed”.

But I think your question is fundamentally flawed—-we all use AI in phone and editor autocomplete, searching, summarization and whatnot on a daily basis now in office tools. It is using it for actual useful output that counts, and for that it is still below what I deem acceptable.

Re: Ask HN: What useful AI tools do you use every day?

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Augment Code (https://www.augmentcode.com/) extension in VSCode. The remote agent feature is fantastic and the local agent is worth buying credits for. I've tried almost every AI editor (Cursor, Windsurf, Roo/Cline etc.), tried CLI-based coders (Claude Code, Aider, Codex etc.), and have used them all with ton of useful MCPs and in the end, I've had the best results with Augment.

Re: Ask HN: What useful AI tools do you use every day?

#20
Warp.dev and VSCode Copilot (I use Cursor et al too it could be any of them).

Warp because I can't remember many commands (copilot in the terminal works too but you lose agent mode). They've just release v2 today, looking forwards to try it as a free Claude Code.

Looking to switch to Dia or some agentic browser as main driver but at the moment content with Firefox and Grok as the default search engine.

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