The tools I work with
Writing about AI and building with AI are two different things. This page is the second half: the tools I actually work with — and where they shine and where they don't.
Claude — for thinking and writing
Most of my AI work happens with Claude, Anthropic's assistant. I use it to think, to draft, to phrase things and as a research companion — not as an oracle, but as a counterpart that quickly brings structure to a question.
Claude sounds convincing even when it's wrong — which is exactly what the article Convincingly wrong and the lab piece Confidently wrong are about. And in long sessions it, too, loses the thread — the context rot this site is named after. So I check what matters myself.
Claude Code — the workshop
What genuinely won me over as a developer is Claude Code: Claude right in the terminal and the editor. Not line completion, but a counterpart that knows the whole project, that I hand real tasks to and that builds, tests and merges changes. This site was built with it.
It's no autopilot either: I direct, I review, I catch the mistakes it makes. But it's the best developer experience I've had so far — and the real reason this site grew as fast as it did.
Why these in particular?
They fit the way I work and my values. A choice of tools doesn't need more justification than that — it's mine, not a recommendation that has to hold for everyone. If you'd rather work with different tools: by all means.
Nobody pays me for this page, and the links here are plain links, not affiliate. I don't recommend anything for money — I show what I work with. Why I do this from the inside is on About.