Best of AI, per job
One pick per category — the tool worth betting on today. Opinionated on purpose. Disagree? Record your own stack.
Tool Apps
Best ChatBot
Everyone's front door to AI — not the smartest anymore, but the one your mom already has installed.
Best Coding Agent
The one that ships PRs unattended. Cursor is closing in.
Best Code Completion / IDE
The IDE AI coders actually live in — Copilot keeps shipping the features Cursor had last year.
Best General / Cowork Agent
Give it a goal and walk away — when it doesn't quietly spin its wheels on your dime.
Best Image Generation
Still the most beautiful default, even after everyone else caught up on prompt-following.
Best Video Generation
The filmmaker's toolkit — Sora gets the headlines, Runway gets the actual shot list.
Best Voice / Speech
Cloned voices this convincing should probably worry you more than they do.
Best Music Generation
A radio-ready song from a text prompt in under a minute — the copyright fight is coming.
Best Meeting Notes
No bot joins your call, the notes just appear — the rare AI tool that disappears into the workflow.
Best Deep Research
Fast and cited enough for most questions — actual researchers still reach for Elicit.
Best Copywriting
Built for marketing teams with a budget, not solo writers — the workflow is the product, not the prose.
Best Slides & Presentations
Type an outline, get a deck that doesn't look like a template — fastest way out of PowerPoint.
Best Translation
Still reads more human than Google Translate, even after everyone copied its playbook.
Best Workflow Automation
The Zapier alternative developers actually enjoy fighting with — self-host it or regret it.
Best App / Site Builder
Fastest path from prompt to deployed frontend — the code it writes is finally worth keeping.
API / Models
The substrate underneath, not the thing you pick. Most people switch tools far more often than they switch models — but if you build on the APIs directly, here is where we would start.