Best of AI, per job
One pick per category — the tool or model 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
Best Reasoning / Text Model
Still the model you reach for when being wrong is expensive.
Best Coding Model
Open-weight and closing the gap on Sonnet faster than anyone in San Francisco wants to admit.
Best Image Generation Model
The Midjourney-beating model most people generate through without ever knowing its name.
Best Fast / Cheap Model
Cheap enough to call on every request, smart enough that you stop noticing the downgrade.
Best Open-Weight Model
The safe open-weight default — Qwen and DeepSeek are the ones actually pushing the frontier.
Best Long-Context Model
Swallows entire codebases without choking — a context window that's usable, not just advertised.