Working with AI

Every week there’s a new AI tool to jump on. Keeping up with all of them is a full-time job that produces nothing.

This page is the opposite: a running ledger of which tools earned a place in how I work, which I’m still testing, and which I dropped, each with the receipt behind the call. Short on purpose. It grows when something earns it.

Kept Trialling Dropped
Kept · situational

Plan with Claude, execute with a local Qwen.

Not an everyday driver, but for the right well-scoped project it's excellent: Claude writes the tightly structured tickets, and a local Qwen picks them up and executes. The harness matters more than the model: Qwen floundered under aider but held up in an opencode chat.

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Trialling

The AI-OS dashboard.

Not something I need day to day, but I'm trialling it while travelling. It shines for less technical people who want a visual dashboard over their tools instead of a terminal.