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12 use cases, 53 tools. A tool is ranked for a job. Initial editorial, pending tests
| # | Use case | #1 (editorial) | #2 | #3 | Tools |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | AI Coding Agents & IDEs Agentic coding in terminal/IDE/cloud. | Claude Code | OpenAI Codex | Cursor | 7 |
| 02 | Vibe-Coding App Builders Prompt-to-app for non-engineers and fast prototyping. | Lovable | Replit | Bolt.new | 4 |
| 03 | General AI Assistants Daily-driver chat assistants. | ChatGPT | Claude | Gemini | 4 |
| 04 | Research & Search Cited answers, deep research, source-grounded notebooks. | Perplexity | Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM) | Elicit | 3 |
| 05 | Agent Builders & Automation No/low-code agents and workflow automation. | n8n | Zapier | Make | 5 |
| 06 | Agent Dev Stack Frameworks, browser infrastructure, web-data APIs, model routing. | LangGraph + LangSmith | OpenAI Agents SDK | Browserbase + Stagehand | 6 |
| 07 | Image Generation Concept art, marketing, thumbnails, text-in-image. | Midjourney | Ideogram | FLUX (Black Forest Labs) | 4 |
| 08 | Video Generation & Editing Generative video, avatars, AI editing. | Kling | Google Flow (Veo) | Runway | 7 |
| 09 | Voice, Audio & Music TTS, voice cloning, SFX, soundtracks. | ElevenLabs | Suno | Inworld | 3 |
| 10 | Game Dev: 3D & Art Assets Text/image-to-3D, textures, style-consistent 2D. | Meshy | Tripo | Rodin (Hyper3D) | 4 |
| 11 | Game Dev: Design, Prototyping & Engine AI In-engine assistants, ideation, prompt-to-game. | Unity's AI tools | Rosebud AI | Ludo.ai | 3 |
| 12 | Local & Open Models Running models on your own hardware. | Ollama | LM Studio | Hugging Face | 3 |