My Daily AI Stack (Plus Better Coffee)

How cool is it that these days, we can iterate and improve so quickly in our lives?

I’ve recently scored a great black friday deal with 1.5kg of tasty coffee. It was 30% off, so I went all in (I freeze the beans).

With a new bag of coffee, it’s always a little tricky to dial it in, especially with fancy beans like these. You need to figure out grind size, agitation, brew method, water temperature, etc., to get it right.

Sometimes it can take me up to 3-4 coffees, aka 45-60g of a 250g bag, to dial in a good cup.

Once I know how, I write down the exact recipe like this.

Thanks to ChatGPT, this has gotten just so much faster in recent months.

I’ll take a photo of the beans and submit it with some details of what I typically do or what I have tried so far. The results here have come a long way. A year ago, it was pretty much useless and produced a lot of garbage, but now, it seems to have become a world barista champion.

Here’s my voice-to-text while sipping the coffee.

The reply.

I love it. Back in the day, you’d have to spend months learning about the ins and outs while wasting great coffee. Now you can learn about the ins and outs, but it’s easier to get to the result.

It needs less patience and perseverance.

It’s something I’ve noticed with coding, too. 10 years ago to learn to code was not a lot of fun. You’d sometimes run into these little issues that would take you hours and hours to resolve. You would get better, but it took an awful lot of perseverance.

AI seems to be helping with this by making things a little less painful to figure out.

TLDR: check out ChatGPT for coffee brewing, but I also thought it would be cool to share the other tools I use daily.

AI tooling

Dia browser.

This browser has been quite amazing for me.

You go to a website, and in the sidebar, you can open a ChatGPT sidebar to communicate with the browser, ask questions about different tabs, and summarise information.

There are a few competitors by now, namely ChatGPT Atlas, and Perplexity, so that’s cool to see where browsers are heading with AI being a lot more embedded.

Superwhisper

I’ve said this before, but this is such a cool feature when pinned to the microphone button on your keyboard.

You could enable the dictate feature on macOS itself, but it isn’t as good at picking up natural language. I don’t type that much anymore, and it lets you use all sorts

Visual Studio Code Copilot

I’ve been playing around with this for quite a while, mainly driven by Cursors’ and Claude Codes’ introduction of usage limits.

Cursor might have a few better features, but I can’t see myself paying 20-60$ a month to end up being rate-limited (unable to use the AI models the rest of the month).

With Copilot, it’s $10 for the cheapest and $39 for the highest, while the higher tier gives you 5x more usage instead of three. I used to max out my Cursor Pro tier in two days, while Copilot Pro would last for a whole month. Then if you need to, the $39 will get you as far as you need.

The main benefit to Codex from ChatGPT or Claude Code from Claude is that it’s model agnostic.

Yesterday, Google released Gemini 3, and you can use it straight away in your familiar environment.

The other benefit is the flexibility of VS Code, where Copilot runs. You can do whatever you want.

I’ve built complex SEO workflows that use AI to verify SEO keywords and generate whole articles to improve my site’s SEO.

Set up properly, something like the command below, will run whole workflows of tasks that don’t necessarily have anything to do with coding (think scanning Reddit for posts to reply to to promote your product).

A nice little gimmick is that the Copilot subscription is linked to the whole GitHub infrastructure.

Somewhere, waiting for my wife, I noticed a bug on my site, but I wasn’t in front of my computer. No problem. Open the GitHub app --> create a new Copilot task --> let it work on it --> review the changes on your phone --> approve deploy to production --> fixed.

General AI Models

Venice AI

Seems quite good for privacy and uncensored broad opinions.

ChatGPT 5

Aside from coffee, I use this to plan out coding tasks.

It’s quite good at complex assessments, where it runs through the whole codebase to get a complete picture to move forward. I use it only for planning, though.

Claude Haiku 4.5

This new model has been like an absolute game-changer for me.

It’s pretty smart - almost as good as Sonnet 4.5, I’d say, but costs only a third to run.

This has been a pretty good evolution towards cheaper models instead of just smarter, more expensive ones.

The ecosystem is changing so quickly, so I think it’s important to just play around with all this stuff as much as you can. Do not lock into any annual subscription. They might be cheaper, but something new and better might show up at any time.