The bolded ones are my go-to currently. It’s an exciting AI time as many things are new.
Languages: Python | JavaScript
OS: Mac | iTerm
Frontend: React | Tailwind CSS
Backend / DB: Node | Supabase | Pocketbase
Prototype UI: Streamlit | Gradio
Design: Figma
General LLM: ChatGPT | Claude
Advanced LLM UI: Google AI Studio | OpenAI Playground | Claude Workbench
Coding LLM: Cursor | Claude | GitHub Co-Pilot
Image / Stable Diffusion Models: Midjourney | Flux
Online GPU for Training: Replicate | Fal.ai | Lightning AI | ThinkDiffusion | RunDiffusion | RunPod (best for ComfyUI)
Finetune / LoRA (UI): Automatic 1111 | ComfyUI
Finetune / LoRA (coding): PyTorch | CoLab
Paper Reference: Google Scholar | Zotero
Notes: Notion | Bear
Tools I don’t use much / anymore, but miss
Emacs | LaTeX | OmniGraffle | Sublime Text | Twisted Python
To try / add soon:
Video: Sora | Veo | RunwayML | Dream Machine | HeyGen
3D / 4D: Vizcom | Genesis
UI: Uizard | Galileo AI | UXPilot.ai
Agents: Autogen | LangGraph
Small Models: SmolLM
Canvas: TLDraw
Shell / Terminal Apps: bubbletea
Some papers I have been reading / re-reading:
- Attention is All You Need (https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762)
- High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models (https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.10752)
- LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models (https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.09685)
- Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior (https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.03442)