If you count yourself among those people who don't know about these tools, I have bad news for you. You are far too left behind.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| Opus | Model built for complex coding and reasoning |
| Fable | AI model for coding and agent workflows |
| Kimi | Chat model with long-context reasoning |
| Qwen | Open-weight chat and coding model |
| Anti-Gravity | AI-assisted coding environment |
| Cursor | Code editor with built-in AI |
| Open Code | Open-source AI coding tool |
| Codex | Generates and completes code |
| Grok | Chat model with real-time data access |
| Perplexity | AI search that cites its sources |
| Lovable | Turns prompts into working apps |
| Replit | Cloud coding platform with AI app builder |
| Higgsfield | Generates short-form AI video |
| Spark | Builds apps from plain text prompts |
| Cowork | AI workspace for multi-step tasks |
| Heygen | Generates talking AI avatar videos |
| Kling | Generates video from text or images |
| Omni | Handles text, voice, and visuals together |
| Hugging Face | Hub for hosting and running AI models |
| + more... |
Nobody sends you a memo when a new one ships. They just show up, get used by someone on your team, and one day you're the only one who hasn't touched them.
AI won't replace you. Your stubbornness on not learning AI will replace you. A developer who treats a new tool as optional is competing against one who doesn't. Same skill, same experience, different output six months from now.
You don't need all of them. You need one habit: when a name comes up twice, spend twenty minutes with it. Find out what it does. See if it fits something you already do slower than you'd like.
I request you learn and adapt, otherwise, you will be replaced.
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© Muhammad Usman
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