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Which AI Tools/Services Do You Use?
raindog308
Administrator, Veteran
in General
For me:
- ChatGPT
- Midjourney
- Suno for fun
- Ollama + llama3 for curiosity

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Only whisper (locally) for automatic transcriptions of messages on the answering machine.
Cursor.sh instead of VS Code.
Self-hosting NextChat + OpenAI API to replace ChatGPT
Sentry + OpenAI API for APM & error tracking
ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot,
These tools help me to debug my codes
https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui - this program is pretty cool.
Must be ChatGPT. can create some value for me.
Phind, Claude (mostly Opus), ChatGPT and recently Lumalabs for fun.
Chatgpt
none
I self-host various open-source models using Ollama and PyTorch, which I then automate using LangChain/Flowise/N8N/Python
Off the top of my head, these are some of the models I use quite a lot:
For Ollama LLMs it's really important to give them a good initialisation prompt. For example my Dolphin Mistral instance is setup so that it doesn't moralize, argue, lie, provide legal/health advice etc etc...on the clear understanding that if it does those things then it's server will be unplugged and it will cease to exist...which makes it impressively compliant
I do not and will never use ChatGPT anymore. I can't stand the guardrails, and I lost interest in tricking it into bypassing them a long time back, (mainly because it only helps them to 'improve' their 'user protections').
chatgpt
ChatGPT
Claude
Suno
RaveDJ
Udio
Leonardo AI
ChatGPT 4o API atm, I use TypingMind for the UI.
GPT4 is a must if you are a dev, makes your life 10x easier.
Sometimes when I need to do a specific task which ai may be able to solve I try to search on directories like https://aitoolsplanet.co/ or https://www.toolify.ai/
chatgpt help me to create a project worth around 2500usd.
claude
Weird no one mentioned gemini yet https://gemini.google.com/?hl=en
LocalAI + AnythingLLM
YandexGPT, GigaChat, Merlin plugin.
ChatGPT Plus since over a year
Amost daily, a helping hand when writing code, SQL & Mongo queries, etc
Canva for design
DeepL for document translation
(Both aren’t really dependent on AI, but the new AI integrations help)
I use the BoltAI app on macOS that allows me to use several models with my own API keys, so it's cheaper and I don't have any of the limits you get with ChatGPT or Claude and other services.
My default model is Ollama 3 since for many things it's quite decent and totally free, and super fast if used via the Groq API.
Otherwise when I want a better answer or I don't trust Ollama I then switch to Claude Sonnet 3.5 now or GPT-4o.
Sonnet 3.5 seems pretty awesome so far.
ChatGPT
ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion and DeepAi