The Stack

What I actually use.

Verified, first-person reviews of the AI, dev, and infrastructure tools that sit on my bench day-to-day. Honest about what each one is bad at. Tools I dropped stay listed with the reason why.

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Llm Client

1 tool

Active Verified Jun 2026

Llm Client · Free tier + paid

Claude

The model I trust for real engineering - just not through its own app.

Claude is the model I reach for when the code has to be right, and on hard, multi-file reasoning it is the one I trus…

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Editor

1 tool

Active Verified Jun 2026

Editor · Free tier + paid

Google Antigravity

Google's Antigravity IDE - a VS Code fork - is my main editor, Claude inside.

Antigravity ships in two flavours, and I deliberately run the one Google markets least: the Antigravity IDE, a straig…

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Devtool

2 tools

Active Verified Jun 2026

Devtool · Free

n8n

The automation tool that finally beat my years of Alteryx and Power Automate.

After years as an advanced Alteryx user and a pro-level Power Automate user, n8n is the first automation tool I have …

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Active Verified Jun 2026

Devtool · Free tier + paid

Wispr Flow

AI voice dictation that types clean text into any app on your machine.

Wispr Flow is the fastest way I have found to get a spoken thought into any text field - its own dashboard clocks me …

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