Updating My AI Workflow

It’s been nearly six months since I detailed my AI workflow back in June, and since that is approximately 12 years in AI Years, I figured it would be a good time to publish what has changed for me.

Services, Tools, & Apps

Lots of changes here on this list.

The current list is:

Services

• GitHub Copilot - $8.33/month
• Gemini Plus - $20/month
• OpenAI API Usage - $1/month

The big change here is moving from ChatGPT to Gemini. The reason is pretty simple, for the same $20 I feel like I get a better model (Gemini 3 Pro and Gemini 3 Flash are both great) more bang for my buck.

Copilot is still there and still a mainstay for autocomplete as is some OpenAI API usage. OpenAI still has the best APIs and because of that I’ve been slow to move off of them for personal and C33 projects.

Apps & Tools

• Zed
• Gemini CLI
• Gemini Web Interface

Zed is still my code editor of choice and I’m still in love with it. Gemini doesn’t have a Mac app, in classic Google form, so I’m using the web interface for ad hoc needs. I’m also using the Gemini CLI interface increasingly both inside of Zed so I can use my subscription rather than pay for API usage, and as a way to quickly fire off a question on my Mac without having to open a web browser.

Uses & Benefits

Not a lot of changes here. I still lean on AI a lot of image generation and manipulation (which is another reason why I moved to Gemini), but I do use LLM, specifically Gemini, more for web search-type use cases since I trust the Google search index way more than I do the OpenAI index.

Coding use case is still very much the same. I view the AI as an assistant that reviews code I’ve written, auto-completes code as I go, and occasionally used to bounce and vet ideas with.

Active Experiments

1. I’m looking in to using the CLI more for new use cases like document review.
2. I’m also trying to use Google’s NotebookLM more going forward.
3. Deeper integration with my Home Assistant powered smart home. I already use OpenAI for my voice assistant, but do I move that to Google as well? What else can I do with it? Can I have it automate more?