AI TOOLS DIRECTORY

Aider

AI Coding

Open-source AI pair programming in your terminal. Works with any LLM - Claude, GPT, Gemini, local models. Git-aware editing with automatic commits.

Bolt

AI Coding

StackBlitz's in-browser AI app builder. Full-stack apps from a prompt - runs Node.js, installs packages, and deploys. No local setup needed.

ChatGPT

AI Models

OpenAI's flagship. GPT-4o for general use, o3 for reasoning, Codex for coding. 300M+ weekly users. Tasks, agents, web browsing, DALL-E, code interpreter.

Claude

AI Models

Daily Driver

Anthropic's AI. Opus 4.6 for hard problems, Sonnet 4.6 for speed, Haiku 4.5 for cost. 200K context window. Best coding model I've tested. Max plan ($200/mo).

Claude Agent SDK

AI Frameworks

New

Anthropic's Python SDK for building production agent systems. Tool use, guardrails, agent handoffs, and orchestration. Released alongside Claude 4.

Claude Code

AI Coding

Daily Driver

Anthropic's agentic coding CLI. Runs in your terminal, edits files autonomously, spawns sub-agents, and maintains memory across sessions. Powered by Claude Opus 4.

Clerk

Infrastructure

This Site

Drop-in auth for React/Next.js. Pre-built sign-in UI, session management, user profiles, org management. This site uses Clerk for authentication.

Cloudflare

Infrastructure

This Site

CDN, DNS, DDoS protection, and edge computing. Free tier handles most needs. This site uses Cloudflare for DNS and analytics. Workers for edge compute.

Composio

AI Frameworks

Gives AI agents access to 250+ external tools (GitHub, Slack, Gmail, databases) with managed OAuth. Handles the auth and API complexity so your agent doesn't have to.

Continue.dev

AI Coding

Open-source AI code assistant for VS Code and JetBrains. Bring your own model - local or API. Tab autocomplete, chat, inline edit. Fully customizable.

Convex

Infrastructure

This Site

Reactive backend - database, server functions, real-time sync, cron jobs, file storage. All TypeScript. This site's backend (courses, videos, user data) runs on Convex.

CrewAI

AI Frameworks

Multi-agent orchestration framework. Define agents with roles, goals, and tools, then assign them tasks in a crew. Python-based. Great for complex workflows.

Cursor

AI Coding

Essential

AI-native code editor forked from VS Code. Composer mode rewrites multiple files at once. Tab autocomplete predicts your next edit. Pro plan is $20/mo.

DeepSeek

AI Models

Open-source reasoning models from China. DeepSeek-R1 rivals o1 on math and code benchmarks. V3 for general use. Fully open weights. Extremely cost-effective API.

Devin

AI Coding

Cognition Labs' autonomous software engineer. Handles full tasks end-to-end - reads docs, writes code, runs tests, and submits PRs in an isolated sandbox.

Gemini

AI Models

Google's frontier model family. Gemini 2.5 Pro has 1M token context and top-tier coding benchmarks. Gemini 3 Pro pushes reasoning further. Free tier via AI Studio.

Gemini CLI

AI Coding

Free

Google's open-source coding CLI. Free tier with Gemini 2.5 Pro. Supports tool use, file editing, shell commands. 1M token context window.

GitHub Copilot

AI Coding

328K views

The original AI coding assistant. 77M+ developers. Inline completions in VS Code and JetBrains. Copilot Workspace generates full projects from issues. $10/mo.

GPT-5

AI Models

OpenAI's latest flagship model. Major leap in reasoning, coding, and instruction following over GPT-4o. Powers ChatGPT Plus/Pro and the API. Available via API and ChatGPT.

Grok

AI Models

xAI's model with real-time X/Twitter data access. Grok 3 rivals top models on reasoning. Built-in web search and current events awareness. Available via API.

LangChain / LangGraph

AI Frameworks

Most popular LLM framework. 100K+ GitHub stars. Chains, RAG, vector stores, tool use. LangGraph adds stateful multi-agent workflows with cycles and persistence.

Linear

Productivity

Issue tracking built for speed. Keyboard-first, sub-100ms UI. Cycles, roadmaps, GitHub integration. I use it to track all DevDigest engineering work.

Llama

AI Models

Meta's open-source model family. Llama 4 available in Scout (17B active) and Maverick (17B active, 128 experts). Free to use, modify, and deploy commercially.

LlamaIndex

AI Frameworks

LLM data framework for connecting custom data sources to language models. Best-in-class RAG, data connectors, and query engines. Python and TypeScript.

Lovable

AI Coding

68K views

AI app builder - describe what you want, get a deployed full-stack app with React, Supabase, and auth. No coding required. Free tier available.

Mastra

AI Frameworks

TypeScript-first AI agent framework. Workflows, RAG, tool use, evals, and integrations. Built for production Node.js apps. Open-source.

Mistral

AI Models

European open-weight models. Mistral Large for complex tasks, Mistral Small for speed, Codestral for code. Strong multilingual support. Open and API options.

Obsidian

Productivity

Daily Use

Local-first markdown knowledge base with wikilinks. My entire DevDigest pipeline lives here - research, scripts, content calendar, daily journal.

OpenAI Agents SDK

AI Frameworks

Lightweight Python framework for multi-agent systems. Agent handoffs, tool use, guardrails, tracing. Successor to the experimental Swarm project.

OpenAI Codex

AI Coding

216K views

OpenAI's cloud coding agent. Runs in a sandboxed container, reads your repo, executes tasks, and submits PRs. Uses GPT-5.3 (codex model). Available in ChatGPT.

OpenRouter

AI Models

Unified API for 200+ models. One API key, one billing dashboard. OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Mistral, and more. Automatic fallbacks and load balancing.

Replit Agent

AI Coding

Full-stack AI dev environment in the browser. Describe an app, get a deployed project with database, auth, and hosting. No local setup needed.

Sourcegraph Cody

AI Coding

AI coding assistant with deep codebase context. Indexes your entire repo graph for accurate answers. VS Code and JetBrains extensions. Free tier available.

Supabase

Infrastructure

Open-source Firebase alternative built on Postgres. Auth, real-time subscriptions, storage, edge functions, and pgvector for AI embeddings. Generous free tier.

v0

AI Coding

Vercel's generative UI tool. Describe a component, get production-ready React code with shadcn/ui and Tailwind. Iterate by chatting. Free to try.

Vercel

Infrastructure

This Site

Deployment platform behind Next.js. Git push to deploy. Edge functions, image optimization, analytics. Free tier is generous. This site runs on Vercel.

Vercel AI SDK

AI Frameworks

Essential

The TypeScript toolkit for building AI apps. Unified API across OpenAI, Anthropic, Google. Streaming, tool calling, structured output, multi-step agents. 50K+ GitHub stars.

Windsurf

AI Coding

Codeium's AI-native IDE. Cascade agent mode handles multi-file edits autonomously. Free tier with generous limits. Strong alternative to Cursor.

Wispr Flow

Productivity

AI voice dictation for macOS. Works in any app - code editors, browsers, notes. Understands context and formats output appropriately. Faster than typing for prose.

Zed

AI Coding

High-performance code editor built in Rust with native AI integration. Sub-millisecond input latency. Built-in assistant supports Claude, GPT, and local models.