I’ll start this out with a story to get you in the right vibe to really soak up what I’m about to tell you about my “tool stack”.
The other day I was moderating an AMA (ask me anything) call with Chris Koerner (name drop) and a gentleman popped on to ask about his insurance claims adjusting business and building a “wrapper” for it. He was an older gentleman (late 60s, early 70s)… not that it matters, but the fact that he knew what a wrapper was, was impressive. Most dont.
It’s kind of a slang (ish) term to describe an app that is basically JUST your LLM, but wrapped in a fun and easy to use interface for whatever the purpose might be. BASICALLY all apps are in some way shape or form, a wrapper. ANYWAY— He was asking Chris about the best way to go about the build and how to put his claims adjusting calculator app together. Chris spat out a handful of different things that he could do and the gentleman was writing them down as fast he could. And thats when it occurred to me, most people (this guy included) are asking the wrong questions. They are fixated on the TOOLS that will get them from point A to point B… and yes, while that’s true, the tools will change in a week… and I’m not exaggerating. These tools are developing at the speed of light and if you dont stay on top of them daily, you’ll miss out…. So then what? If that’s true (which it is), then what do you do? HOW do you continue to ride the wave without getting left behind? The answer is a lot more simple than you might expect: You dont focus on the tools, you focus on understanding what the tools are doing. That might seem like the same thing, but it’s not. Another more common example is cooking. It’s the difference between reading the recipe and ACTUALLY understanding whats happening.
Salt and sugar look a lot alike, but if you mix them up, it could be a disaster.
And what about baking things at altitude? Things usually rise faster and dry out quicker.
OR adding too much butter in your cookies— it will make them spread or be too greasy… You get the point? That’s the difference between reading the recipe and knowing how to cook. Those tricks of the trade make a big difference. THEREFORE— Don't worry about the tool. Focus instead onunderstanding what the tool actually does. But because I KNOW you want to hear my specific tools stack, I’ll tell you what I use and how I use it.
This is not in any particular order, just what came to mind first as I was typing this out: Claude - Claude is my bread and butter! It is the main LLM that I use and it’s pretty much where I start everything. In Claude there’s Claude Chat which I don’t use as much, because I live mostly in Claude Co-work. I I’m doing a large build I’m just going to start it in Claude Code- which will access my computer locally, Cloud Code will also access my terminal and write code for me in my terminal based on whatever build we’re doing, both of which will save folders, documents, and everything locally just through the process of the build. Anthropic in my mind currently is still far superior than anything that OpenAI has! Although Codex is pretty good, I am still more of a Claude ecosystem fan. Codex - I mentioned Codex prior and I believe Codex to be a phenomenal product from OpenAI! It is an LLM as well. It’s going to access everything locally. It’s going to access your terminal. It’s going to help you build things. Just think of it like Claude Code, one in the same. It’s a great product! I will sometimes build the same thing in Claude Code and in Codex just to see the results of using both. OpenVoice - This is basically WisprFlow! It’s my own personal version of WisprFlow, which I highly recommend! It’s a voice dictation tool that I’ve built. So as I’m writing this currently, I’m holding down the option key and I’m speaking into my computer and it’s registering my voice and it’s turning it into text. Something like this makes me so much more productive and allows me to share so many more thoughts than I would if I was just writing it out! So if you don’t want to go through the install that I have down here in this link, I would highly recommend using WisprFlow! https://github.com/Kettlebell319/openvoice-dictation Atlas - Atlas is ChatGPT’s web browser. What I like about Atlas is the agent that’s built into the browser where you can go on a web page and then click the agent or assistant, and it will read and scrape and summarize and research everything that you ask it! And it’s embedded into the browser so it sees immediately what you’re looking at as opposed to using Claude and having it connected to your computer and then go through your web browser and everything manually. Atlas is just connected right there, so the results are immediate and they’re very in-depth! I’m a big fan of Atlas! Fathom - Fathom is awesome! I use Fathom to record all of my video calls that I have and I have a TON of them. I’m able to connect to Fathom on the back end for all of the transcripts and to summarize who I’ve talked to, what I’ve talked about, action items, everything like that. Fathom also has built-in AI and summaries that you can use as well! However, most of what I do is just a matter of taking the transcripts and analyzing them later in Claude. Neeto Record - Neeto Record is just a free version of Loom! Loom is awesome, I used Loom for years, but Loom got a little pricey and above a certain amount of videos you had to pay more and it just got to the point that it wasn’t worth it. But I found Neeto Record and it’s the same thing - screen recordings, it has a transcript of your recording and you can even edit the videos a little bit. It is basically a free Loom and it’s great! Lovable- Lovable is a great tool! Yes, this is a tool… It has an infrastructure designed to help you build apps and websites and all sorts of things, which you can do inside Claude as well and I do most often, but Lovable is built for ease and designed very aesthetically pleasing. You can do this with Replit, you can do this with Bolt, there’s tons of options out there! I would say Replit and Lovable are the main ones and currently I have a Lovable subscription, so that’s what I use Supabase - This is just the back-end database that I’ll use. So if I have anything that would require multiple users or to save data or to track things and log all of those statistics, whatever they might be, I use Supabase. You can use a ton of other things, but personally I use Supabase because most of this other software plays really well with it! Nettlify- I use Netlify when I’ve built out a website or an app or a project or an HTML file and I want to share it easily as a link with somebody so that they can open it on their phone or computer or wherever! Netlify allows me to make a free shareable web link from the file that I created and send it easily! I do this a lot of the time for clients and projects just to share something quickly. I’m sure there are so many other tools in my stack that I use, but these are definitely the main ones! I wish I had an affiliate link for any one of these, but I don’t. I just think they’re awesome and highly recommend at least trying some of these out!
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