Ask HN: What is the most useful AI tool you use outside of Cursor/ChatGPT?

4 break_the_bank 2 9/17/2025, 8:49:05 PM
When I say Cursor/ChatGPT it includes everything in those categories including Cline/Claude Code/Claude/Gemini etc! I am really curious what tools are people using and getting the most value of, how do you use them, and how essential they have become to you!

Comments (2)

PaulHoule · 42m ago
SBERT embeddings make short work of many classification and clustering tasks. I made an RSS reader using SBERT and scikit-learn.
adocomplete · 40m ago
Honestly, I use the foundational model tools as much as possible, so going directly to Claude, Gemini, or ChatGPT.

I personally haven't found an AI tool that's a wrapper for these that does anything better than what you can get going directly to the source.