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Discussion on: My 2026 AI Stack: 8 Tools That 10x My Coding & Productivity (Free Tier Only)

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Mohit ✨

Good Question!

Google's Antigravity + NotebookLM is the way to go if you are a beginner (if you wanna go paid, I'd still suggest this setup)

Why?

  1. Generous Rate Limits 👏
  2. Strong MCP support 🚀
  3. Access to NotebookLM. This is huge. Once you use NotebookLM you won't go back
  4. You get access to models (in free tier) like Claude Models, Gemini models (with monster context window of 1M), Code, open source models like gpt-oss-120b etc
  5. Familiar tools if you are used to VS Code