Vini’s List

Agents are much more useful once your code, issues, PRs and actions all live in one place.

A very good second pair of eyes on every PR. Greploops are really cool: they found that writing with Claude and reviewing with GPT, or vice versa, can outperform using the same model for both.

My default for understanding what people actually do in a product. Analytics, replay and experiments, and it has an MCP as well! Also, the founders are hilarious, and so is their marketing.

Swap models without rewriting anything. This is how we manage stochasticity by having fallback models.

Before paying for an API, check if an open model already does the job.

Once an AI system matters, you need to know whether it is actually getting better.

Drop in everything about a topic and start asking questions. One of the best self-guided exploration tools out there.

Sharper than a general model on business French and German, which matters when a native speaker is going to read it.

This was from my old lab at Berkeley! Really nice for building intuition on how different models stack up, rated by people instead of benchmarks.

The same idea applied to interfaces: two designs, no labels, pick the better one.

Our designs live here. Lots of cool work being done with Figma Weave.

Our interactive agent characters are built with it.

Very, very good transcription, and very fast inside products. When specific agents narrate, we are using Whisper.

Everyone seems to be excited about this one. I still have not gotten into it fully, but I see the appeal.

The best generated speech I have used. Good enough that it is in our product: we use these in our scenario features!

Lovely interactive presentations, and quite high quality for ten minutes of work. Worth exploring generating HTML slides directly with Claude or Codex too.

Use this when integrations matter most. It connects to basically everything.

The easiest of the four to understand. Where I would tell a beginner to start.

My pick if you want control: run it locally, then use it through MCP from basically any model.

Very underrated if you already live in Google Workspace. Great for turning inboxes, docs and recurring admin into little agents.

Pretty cool if you have a lot of emails.

My go-to for 0 to mobile app creation.

Barrier to entry for web development has never been lower! I sometimes use Lovable, but personally prefer going straight to coding agents. Great for folks who don’t want to work in the code.

The new search? I find it much better than the other models for helping me write well-sourced speaker bios or intros.