How I use AI (early 2025)

Chat
Claude, $20/mo, 5x/day: my go-to chat surface.
 
Programming
Cursor, $20/mo, 3h/day: for code-completion, usually via tab autocomplete, Cmd+K to edit a block of code, or Cmd+L to make a request via chat.
Codebuff (reflink), $0/mo, 1x/day: as an agent for larger changes, usually first drafts of new functionality.
Warp, $0/mo, >10x/day: Cmd + I for natural language terminal commands.
 
Speech-to-text
Voice Memos (built-in on iOS/macOS), $0/mo, 2x/wk: simple speech-to-text transcripts that I paste into Claude. quality is poor but irrelevant, since LLMs can figure it out anyways.
Superwhisper, $0/mo, churned: used it until I found out about Voice Memos.
 
Meetings & recording
Limitless, $0/mo, 3x/wk: records & transcribes zoom/gmeet calls, w/o a bot.
Limitless Pendant, $99, 2x/wk: hardware device, records & transcribes in-person convos
 
Research
Elicit, $0/mo, 1x/wk: for checking a claim against the scientific literature.
 
Text-to-image/video
Replicate Playground, $0/mo, 1x/mo: easy place to try out new text & image models, or generate some images for eg: event posters.
Midjourney, $10/mo, churned: used to keep an active sub, but I ended up using it too infrequently. much better than the open source models though.
 

How I use AI (early 2025)

Chat
Claude, $20/mo, 5x/day: my go-to chat surface.
 
Programming
Cursor, $20/mo, 3h/day: for code-completion, usually via tab autocomplete, Cmd+K to edit a block of code, or Cmd+L to make a request via chat.
Codebuff (reflink), $0/mo, 1x/day: as an agent for larger changes, usually first drafts of new functionality.
Warp, $0/mo, >10x/day: Cmd + I for natural language terminal commands.
 
Speech-to-text
Voice Memos (built-in on iOS/macOS), $0/mo, 2x/wk: simple speech-to-text transcripts that I paste into Claude. quality is poor but irrelevant, since LLMs can figure it out anyways.
Superwhisper, $0/mo, churned: used it until I found out about Voice Memos.
 
Meetings & recording
Limitless, $0/mo, 3x/wk: records & transcribes zoom/gmeet calls, w/o a bot.
Limitless Pendant, $99, 2x/wk: hardware device, records & transcribes in-person convos
 
Research
Elicit, $0/mo, 1x/wk: for checking a claim against the scientific literature.
 
Text-to-image/video
Replicate Playground, $0/mo, 1x/mo: easy place to try out new text & image models, or generate some images for eg: event posters.
Midjourney, $10/mo, churned: used to keep an active sub, but I ended up using it too infrequently. much better than the open source models though.