What's your current AI stack?

Software Engineer at Taro Community3 months ago

the AI field has changed so much so curious how you're using AI now.

My stack:

search/daily driver (chatGPT). I switched from pplx to chatGPT bc o3 + web search is insanely good now

Coding. Split between windsurf/cursor. Cursor is just too expensive now with their recent changes to justify the price but its just so much better than windsurf. But I end up using windsurf mostly bc the price is the cheapest and their tab completions are unlimited, but its still kinda clunky and worse than cursor

Friends who have tried gemini CLI say its very good. I hear claude code is the gold standard right now but its incredibly expensive

Cline works pretty well and im seeing good results with it

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Alex Chiou
•Tech Lead @ Robinhood, Meta, Course Hero
3 months ago
I'm old-fashioned and I just use ChatGPT for stuff lol. I tried Copilot within VSCode, and it was just not good.

For designs though, I use Readdy.ai, and it's one of my favorite AI tools (probably the favorite now that I think about it). Every new feature on Taro is now being designed with Readdy.
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Rahul Pandey
•Tech Lead/Manager at Meta, Pinterest, Kosei
3 months ago
I use VSCode with Copilot for coding and Gemini for almost all higher-level questions (code or non-code related).
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Julian C
•Mid-Level Software Engineer at Quicken
24 days ago
I’d say give Codex or Claude a real shot, as they are both included in the respective $20 Pro plans. Cursor right now has to either charge a premium or run their business at a loss compared to big players, because they outsource the LLM.

For Codex, the 20$ plan works on a 5-hour rolling window. If you compact context & start fresh chats frequently, you should be good

These are agentic, so check your code. I find it's best with structured refactors and writing unit/integration tests. Prompt it like it's a junior engineer who needs some hand-holding.