AI Tooling #

Evals #

• LangSmith
• Promptflow

LLM Engineering Platform #

• Langfuse

Vector Databases #

• pgvector / Google Cloud SQL & Google AlloyDB AI
• Pinecone

AI Harnesses / Agent Management #

• Conductor
• Pi
• Retired
  • OpenCode
  • Supacode
  • Superset

AI Development Assistants #

• ClaudeCode - AI coding assistant
• Zed - high-performance collaborative code editor
• Superwhisper - AI-powered voice-to-text transcription
• Retired:
  • Cursor - AI-powered code editor
  • Windsurf - AI-powered code editor
  • VS Code - Code Editor

Development Tools #

Programming Languages & Runtimes #

• Go - Go programming language
• Bun - JavaScript runtime
• Node.js - JavaScript runtime
• tsx - TypeScript execute and REPL

Frameworks #

• NestJS - progressive Node.js framework
• Elysia - ergonomic web framework for Bun
• Express - minimal Node.js web framework
• Echo - high-performance Go web framework
• Fiber - Express-inspired Go web framework

Database Tools #

• Dataflare - database visualizer
• TablePro - database visualizer
• Retired:
  • TablePlus - modern database management tool
  • DB Visualizer - database visualization and management
  • pgsanity - PostgreSQL syntax checker

API Development & Testing #

• local-ssl-proxy - HTTPS proxy for local development
• wrk - HTTP benchmarking tool
• HTTPie - user-friendly command-line HTTP client
• Retired:
  • Postman - API development and testing platform
  • Insomnia - API client and design tool

Cloud Providers & PaaS #

• AWS - Amazon Web Services - Production workloads
• GCP - Google Cloud Platform - Production workloads
• Railway - Deployment and development platform
• Vercel - Deployment and development platform
• Retired:
  • DigitalOcean
  • Heroku

Cloud Infrastructure #

• Terraform - infrastructure as code tool
• Ansible - automation tool for macOS provisioning and configuration management
• Docker - containerization platform
• Podman - daemonless container engine

Terminal #

• iTerm
• Ghostty

Document Processing #

• Pandoc - universal document converter

Design & Creative #

• Figma - collaborative interface design tool

Productivity & Utilities #

Launcher & Automation #

• Raycast - productivity launcher and command palette for macOS

Window & Menu Bar Management #

• Rectangle - window management for macOS
• Alt-Tab - Windows-style alt-tab window switcher
• Ice - menu bar management tool
• Hiddenbar - hide menu bar items

Browsers #

• Brave - web browser
• Firefox - web browser
• Google Chrome - web browser
• Retired:
  • Arc

AI Tools That Didn’t Stick #

• Jules - AI coding agent built on top of Gemini 3
• OpenCode - AI-powered development tool
• VibeKanban - AI agent management