What AI tools changed your work/life?

Question

New shiny AI tools and apps appear daily. Many of them are trash, but some are gems, and can change work or life drastically.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.

divan · Accepted Answer

My list:- 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)

amai · Answer

https://vetted.ai/ as a shopping assistant.

Koshcheiushko · Answer

I'm a Maths Undergrad, it blows me when I use chatgpt, it helps me to understand theorems, I used to struggle to understand. I can immediately ask my query, I would say 8 out of 10 times, it's response was very helpful to me. Also it's not that I completely rely on it, I also do Google, but only if I want in more depth.
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.

colesantiago · Answer

Claude and Cursor made me realise I didn't need to hire anyone on Fiverr or any senior software engineers at all for my business, it has changed my business and I don't need to work much on it, it pretty much runs itself.
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.

abraxas · Answer

Cline and Claude for codingChatGPT 4o for improving technical writingNotebookLM for freaking out my friends when I generate podcasts from their bios and tell them they've been featured on NPR.

runjake · Answer

People who said Perplexity, or even lurkers who use it: Are you subscribing to Pro or just using the Free tier?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.

more_corn · Answer

Transcription is pretty huge. I should start paying for read.ai I&rsquo;ve often said, oh it&rsquo;s in the transcript only to find I hadn&rsquo;t done the needful and the transcript wasn&rsquo;t present for some reason (usually user error)

__rito__ · Answer

Ollama and Perplexity.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.

cpach · Answer

ChatGPT is very useful as it is, haven&rsquo;t felt the need to explore alternatives.

bootstrpppin · Answer

ChatGPT but not for the goodIt's made me very lazy with my thinking and writing.

What AI tools changed your work/life?

https://vetted.ai/ as a shopping assistant.

Cline and Claude for coding
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.

People who said Perplexity, or even lurkers who use it: Are you subscribing to Pro or just using the Free tier?
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.

Transcription is pretty huge. I should start paying for read.ai I’ve often said, oh it’s in the transcript only to find I hadn’t done the needful and the transcript wasn’t present for some reason (usually user error)

Ollama and Perplexity.
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.

ChatGPT is very useful as it is, haven’t felt the need to explore alternatives.

ChatGPT but not for the good
It's made me very lazy with my thinking and writing.