Uses
My Setup
Tools and software I use daily for AI engineering work. Opinionated list — only things I actually use.
Development Tools
Cursor
AI-native code editor. Indispensable for AI engineering.
VS Code
Backup editor when I need vanilla experience.
Ghostty
Fast, native terminal. Replaced iTerm2.
Claude Code
Anthropic's CLI agent. Great for complex refactors.
AI / ML Stack
LangChain
Foundation for RAG pipelines and document processing.
LangGraph
Stateful agent orchestration for production use.
OpenAI API
GPT-4o for reasoning tasks and generation.
Anthropic Claude
claude-opus-4-7 for agent tasks requiring long context.
Tavily
Best web search API for AI agents.
Backend & Infrastructure
FastAPI
Python API framework. Fast, async, OpenAPI out of the box.
Docker
Containerization for everything. No bare metal deploys.
Railway
Best DX for deploying Docker containers. Replaced Heroku.
pgvector
Vector search in Postgres. Simple and production-ready.
LanceDB
Embedded vector DB for local/self-hosted RAG.
Frontend
Next.js
Full-stack React framework. App Router + Server Components.
Tailwind CSS
Utility-first CSS. v4 is even better.
Framer Motion
Animation library. Used on this site.
Shadcn/ui
Accessible component primitives. Copy-paste, not install.
Productivity
Linear
Project management. Keyboard-first, fast.
Arc
Browser with sidebar tabs. Game changer.
Notion
Docs, notes, and wikis.
Loom
Screen recording for async client updates.