AI
My journey with using LLMs
Top Pick of 2025
Claude has become my go-to AI assistant for coding, writing, and learning very quickly. I believe their Max 5x ($100/mo) is the best value for budget-conscious consumers like myself.
My AI Stack
Favorite Models
Claude 4 Sonnet
Anthropic
The perfect balance of capability, speed, and price. Perfect for development with React.
Claude 4.1 Opus
Anthropic
Amazing planner, useful for Plan Mode in Claude Code. Useful in code generation too.
Qwen3-235B-A22B
Alibaba
The OG thinking model. Amazing, funny, and smart for chats. Surprisingly good at coding too.
Gemini 2.5 Pro
Amazing for Deep Research and reasoning tasks. I hate it for coding.
gemma3 27B
My favorite for playing around with AI or creating a project. Easy to run locally and open weight!
Tool Reviews
Claude Code
Pros:
- • Flagship models
- • High usage limits
- • Exceptional Claude integration
Cons:
- • Can be slow
- • High investment cost to get value
Best overall for Claude lovers
Cursor
Pros:
- • Works like magic
- • Lots of model support
- • Huge ecosystem and community
Cons:
- • Expensive
- • Hype around it is dying
- • Unclear/manipulative pricing
Great all-rounder, slowly dying
Trae
Pros:
- • Good UI/UX
- • Very budget-friendly
- • Fantastic premium usage limits
Cons:
- • No thinking
- • Occasional parsing issues
Essential for productivity
GitHub Copilot
Pros:
- • Latest models
- • Great autocomplete
- • Budget-friendly subscription price
Cons:
- • No thinking
- • Low quality output
- • Bad support for other IDEs
Good for casual use