Tools I Use

Overview

This is a curated list of tools I use for research, projects, learning, and other tasks. I use the latest models from these platforms as they become available.

AI 🤖

I regularly switch between different AI platforms depending on the task. Each has its own strengths and capabilities. Often I will run hard problems by multiple models or have one critique the output from another.

Coding:

I use both Claude Code and Codex right now, fairly equally. With very recent updates, both are amazing at this point. As the desktop apps for these have gotten better, I am in them more and more, but still remain attached to the CLIs for both.
Warp - when I started using this, it was an AI-enhanced terminal, but it has become a full-blown agent harness at this point. I still use it mainly as a terminal, but now I’m running Claude Code CLI and Codex CLI inside of it.

API:

I use APIs from OpenAI and Google for programmatic access to their models

Chat-based Interfaces:

I don’t use chat-based interfaces nearly as much any more, with Claude Code and Codex (apps and CLIs) having subsumed what I need. That said, I do use ChatGPT app on mobile, including for shopping, where it’s great for satisficing, and quick informational questions. I’ve used Anthropic’s Cowork a little bit and liked it, but haven’t used it enough to have a strong opinion.
I also sometimes use the Gemini app. It’s been a good strategy for complex scientific things to give the same question to Gemini, Claude, and ChatGPT and compare and consolidate (a “council of judges” concept).

Other tools 🔧

These are not things I use currently, but have used quite a bit in the past for dynamic, interactive work like the online Respiratory Physiology book: ffmpeg, ImageOptim, HandBrake, ScreenFlow, ObservableHQ notebooks, and ObservableHQ Framework
Zed. This is a Rust-based, super snappy, IDE that I’ve started using and that is growing on me.

Personal note taking and management ✍️

Dendron via VSCode

Spaced Repetition 📚

Anki

Alfred app