I Spent $20,000 on AI Tools, Here's What Actually Works

I feel like there's just a ridiculous

amount of AI tools out there right now.

And it's actually quite difficult to

work out which ones are worth your time

and money. For me especially, like I

value my own time. I don't want to be

messing around with all sorts of AI

tools and just finding out that they're

rubbish. But unfortunately, I have used

quite a few tools. And in this video, I

wanted to list some of the tools that

I'm actually using, some of the tools

that my team is using, some of the tools

that other people are using that are

actually useful and worth paying for.

Some of these aren't also fully AI, but

they do also sort of complement AI. Now,

of course, Claude is the big one. Claude

is the one that I've been covering a lot

on the channel. I feel like a lot of

people have been using because I think

Claude is very well designed for

productivity focused stuff. So, if

you're someone who needs to do research,

if you're someone who needs to work with

files on your computer, if you're

someone who wants to code, Claude, I

feel like they've done such a good job

of housing everything all in one,

especially when you look at their app.

So having the app and having the chat

functionality, the co-work

functionality, and the coding

functionality all in one place just

makes it super easy to use all of the

tools without having to constantly

change windows and sort of change

context or whatever. And I find myself

switching between all three very quickly

and easily because it's in one app. It

just makes my life a lot easier. Their

chat functionality is like any other

sort of chat AI tool which you can use

to do research, find answers, sort of

come up with strategies and stuff. I use

it a lot for just day-to-day things.

When I need to do some research or I

need to be educated on something or I'm

trying to find out about something, I

use Claw to do all that sort of stuff. I

of course change between the languages

quite often as well because you don't

want to be using their most powerful

model all the time. However, I do pay

for the max plan which is $200 a month,

which I think is worth it. Like I think

the sort of capabilities and stuff you

get with it are insane. Because of that,

I do actually tend to use OPUS more than

I probably should, but I've never hit

the limits, so I'm not really

complaining. Their co-work feature in

particular, I think, is super powerful

because co-work,

as the name suggests, it's kind of

imagine it like an AI agent doing work

for you in the background. And it can do

stuff on your computer. So, if you give

it access to a folder on your computer,

you can have it do stuff within that

folder. So, I've shown examples in the

past where if you have sort of financial

statements or something in a folder, you

need to get information from those

financial statements. You can do that

with co-work. You can also have it sort

of compare legal documents or whatever.

Have it compare information. And they

have a lot of other ideas here. So, you

can have it do all these different

things here. Organize my files. I think

that's a good one. So, let's just say

you have a folder which has a bunch of

different files like your downloads

folder and you wanted to organize all

those files for you can do that. You can

have it organize images, videos, or have

it do a specific thing. Maybe you're

looking for files with a specific file

name and to put them all in a folder.

You can have it do that sort of thing.

You can have it write stuff for you,

create a landing page, build a

dashboard. Those are actually very

similar to Claude code as well. You can

have it analyze Google Drive documents

because it doesn't just have to work on

your computer. If you have it connected

with the connectors functionality, and

they have a bunch of connectors here,

you can have it get information from

those places. So, it doesn't necessarily

just have to be on your computer. I

think this is another good example of

say you have information in a service

like Linear or Figma or whatever. It

could be Google Drive, but you want that

information on your computer. You want

it as a PDF, you want it as a CSV or

something like that. You can have it do

this for you without you having to do it

manually. And then they also have clawed

code which I've done a video on which I

would highly recommend just showing how

to use claw code in the app to make

stuff to make a website or whatever. The

app version is good. It's great. I think

it's great for doing sort of more basic

things um like building a website

building an app. Maybe if you're not

working on multiple projects at the same

time, even though you can have multiple

projects at the same time going, I think

if you're starting out, this is what I'd

recommend. If you're someone who's not

really a developer, who's not messed

around with code and stuff in the past,

but wants to build things, this is what

I'd recommend checking out and using.

OpenAI have their own version of Claude

Code, which they call Codeex, and

Codeex, I'd say, is just as good as

Claude Code. But it does depend because

some people say that one is better than

the other. I personally haven't seen too

much of a difference. What I end up

doing is if there's something I can't do

in Clawed Code or Claude Code is

struggling, then I switch to Codeex. And

then if Codeex is struggling, I switch

to Claw Code. So, I switch between the

two models. I am not tied to any of

these things. If a better model came out

tomorrow, if a better app came out

tomorrow, I would completely switch. I

don't care about any of these companies

or brands. I want to use whatever works

for me, whatever I think is best. Codeex

do have their own app as well, which I

really like. I actually think they've

done a really good job with this app

because you can use it for multi- sort

of agent coding. So, you can have a

bunch of different things going in here

and work on different projects all at

the same time. And I actually think the

app is really welld designed. Is it

better designed than clawed code? Um, I

think it depends on what you're looking

for. I think that's the great thing

about all of these apps and what they

can do. Um, it really depends on what

you're looking for. What I do like about

Codeex is that you can connect it to

your GitHub, you can connect it to an

IDE, you can see your lines of code,

what changes and stuff have been made.

Um, you have the normal chat box like

you would, and then you can see your

projects on the lefth hand side. And

again, you can work on multiple projects

at the same time. So when one agent is

working in the background on one

project, you can then work on another

project or another branch with codeex

and have multiple agents working at the

same time coding stuff in the

background. I do like the app. I think

they've done a really good job with it

and I think they've done a good job of

catching up to Clawed Code because when

Claude Code came out, it was super

popular. I feel like it blew up.

Everyone was raving on about it. So it's

good to see Chip now have Codeex, which

I think is just as good. The app that

I've been using though to code stuff and

to make stuff and to build stuff is an

app called Conductor. And what I really

like about Conductor is the way it

looks, the way it feels, and the way it

works. The sort of UX of this and the UI

design of this, I think, is awesome. On

the left, you have all of your projects

and repos. In the middle, you have your

chat box and stuff. And you can see your

branches at the top as well. And on the

right, you can see your files, you can

see the changes, and you can see your

terminal. Everything all in this one