What AI tools are actually changing how I work? Here’s what’s on my desk (and in my workflows) this week 👇
@comet Browser - I'm all in now with Comet. Creating shortcuts for my most common prompts is awesome and being able to use them in the sidebar of any website is a game changer once you have a few solid workflows built. Earlier today, I had Comet review a spreadsheet of new AI tools, read the OG data from each of the websites, and pull in the name of the tool into a separate column. It's a simple task but I let Comet go off and do it for like 50 tools while I went off and worked on something else. It was awesome.
@warpdotdev - I slept on this one for a while. I assumed it was another coding tool. But it's actually a "use natural language to control your computer's terminal" tool. Have you ever had a file on your computer that you couldn't delete and couldn't figure out why it wouldn't delete? There's a terminal command that'll help you delete it... Warp does stuff like that. It CAN also code and you can run things like Claude Code from within it but it's much more than that. I used it to create an automation where, if there's an app in my computer's dock that I don't use for 30-days, it automatically removes it from my dock to keep things clean. And that’s just scratching the surface.
@n8n_io - If you've been watching my YouTube channel lately, you know this is one my current favorite rabbit-holes. I'm feeling like there's less and less that I can't automate with n8n. You can even tie it into smart home devices and create automations that control your home's lighting and things like that. The first time I used it, the learning curve felt steep but, after a few YouTube videos, I felt pretty dang comfortable building out workflows with it.
@Replit - Another one that I slept on for a while. It's currently my favorite "vibe coding" platform. I asked it to build a clone of a certain site recently. Just a super simple prompt. It built out an entire roadmap, executed on the roadmap step-by-step, double-checked it's own work to make sure things were functional, fixed a few mistakes, allowed me to preview it directly in Replit, and then pushed the whole thing to GitHub for me. It took maybe 15-minutes but I just gave it the prompt, opened a different tab to work on something else and, 15-minutes later, the app was built. (Disclaimer: I recently invested in Replit)
@WisprFlow - I'm trying to get in the habit of talking out my prompts. It still feels a bit awkward but I'm finding myself doing it more and more. Especially with Comet. Comet does have a built-in voice feature but it doesn't work nearly as good a WisprFlow. With WisprFlow I can just sort of rant into my microphone and the app will clean it all up, remove things like ums, fix any misspeaks and things like that before pasting it into whatever app I'm talking to.
(Disclaimer #2 - Some of these companies have sponsored my channel in the past or are sponsoring the channel in the future. But these are genuinely the tools I'm playing with the most at the moment)
At my core, I'm an automation and workflow guy. I got into YouTube to teach automations and workflows for entrepreneurs. AI was sort of the natural evolution from that. I wish my automation and workflow tutorials performed better on YouTube because I'd probably make nothing but those if I could. lol. But I gotta pay the bills and reporting on AI news is still what gets the views. So I have to make like 25% of my videos about automation instead and the rest is what attracts the eyeballs. Is what it is. :)
What tools are you digging right now?