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Do not use the tag #articles] - #AItools - #Workflow - #Productivity Author: Scott Dinsky & Wes Bos Source: YouTube – Syntax Podcast Reference: Transcript “AI Tools you should know” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R21LWuTAOjo) date created: 2025-07-07 10:45 --- # Title: AI Tools You Should Know ## Table of Contents: - [🤖 Introduction](#🤖-introduction) - [🛠 Sentry for Error Tracking](#🛠-sentry-for-error-tracking) - [🔌 Langflow: Node-based MCP & Agents](#🔌-langflow-node-based-mcp--agents) - [🎙️ Voice-to-Text Enhancers](#🎙️-voice-to-text-enhancers) - [🌐 Dia Browser: AI-First Browsing](#🌐-dia-browser-ai-first-browsing) - [💻 Raycast vs. ChatGPT](#💻-raycast-vs-chatgpt) - [🖥️ Self-Hosted AI UIs](#🖥️-self-hosted-ai-uis) - [🎯 Conclusion & Picks](#🎯-conclusion--picks) ### References: - YouTube Transcript: Timestamps linked in notes - Langflow Docs (https://langflow.org) - Sentry (https://sentry.io) - Dia Browser Beta (https://diabrowser.com) ## 📝 Summary: Scott Dinsky and Wes Bos explore a curated list of AI tools—from debugging with Sentry to node-based workflow builder Langflow, voice-to-text power-ups, the Dia AI browser, Raycast integrations, and self-hosted UIs like Comfy UI—demonstrating how each enhances developer productivity and everyday workflows. ## 📖 Main Content: The hosts stress not getting complacent with familiar tools, instead “giving everything a good shake” [00:04](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R21LWuTAOjo&t=4). They illustrate: - **Sentry** for error visibility and user insights [02:07](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R21LWuTAOjo&t=127). - **Langflow**, a Python/node-based editor to build LLM agents and MCP servers [06:33](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R21LWuTAOjo&t=393). - **Super Whisper & Whisper Flow** for accurate voice dictation beyond OS defaults [08:42](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R21LWuTAOjo&t=522). - **Dia Browser**, an AI-integrated browser that chats about open tabs and suggests video-based answers [15:07](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R21LWuTAOjo&t=907). - **Raycast** as a launcher with AI, contrasted with ChatGPT usage preferences [24:59](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R21LWuTAOjo&t=1499). - **Self-hosted UIs** like Comfy UI and Automatic1111 for local model workflows [26:49](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R21LWuTAOjo&t=1609). ### 🗒️ Notes - **[🤖 Introduction](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R21LWuTAOjo&t=4)** - Emphasis: “Don’t get comfortable” with current tools - Tip: Shake up your workflow frequently - **[🛠 Sentry for Error Tracking](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R21LWuTAOjo&t=127)** - Real-time error tracking & user performance insights - New UI via question-mark menu; 2-month free trial with `tastytreat` - **[🔌 Langflow: Node-based MCP & Agents](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R21LWuTAOjo&t=393)** - Node-editor for AI agents, MCP servers, vector DBs - Open source, Python desktop app; supports custom API-key connectors - **[🎙️ Voice-to-Text Enhancers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R21LWuTAOjo&t=522)** - Super Whisper & Whisper Flow vs. macOS dictation - Custom vocab expands accuracy for technical terms - **[🌐 Dia Browser: AI-First Browsing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R21LWuTAOjo&t=907)** - Chat interface built into new-tab command (⌘T) - References tabs, highlights text, and answers with video links - Imports Arc settings; beta for Arc alumni - **[💻 Raycast vs. ChatGPT](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R21LWuTAOjo&t=1499)** - Raycast: hotkey AI in launcher; theme & window-management pros - ChatGPT: memory, image gen, smoother text readability - **[🖥️ Self-Hosted AI UIs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R21LWuTAOjo&t=1609)** - Comfy UI & Automatic1111 for Stable Diffusion workflows - Resource-heavy models; consider offloading to dedicated hardware ## 📖 References: - Syntax Podcast. “AI Tools you should know.” YouTube. June 2025. - Langflow Documentation. (2025). - Sentry.io. (2025). - Dia Browser Beta. (2025). ## 🗣️ Paraphrase: 1. **Original [00:04]:** “The one thing I keep telling myself is like don’t get comfortable in the tools that you’re using.” **Paraphrase:** “I constantly remind myself to avoid settling into familiar tools—always experiment with new ones.” 2. **Original [15:07]:** “I have not opened ChatGPT since I started using this browser because it can answer my questions right in the tab interface.” **Paraphrase:** “Since switching, I haven’t even visited ChatGPT; the browser’s built-in chat meets all my needs immediately in context.” ## 📰 Newsletter: 📰 **This Week in WordPress & AI:** Ready to turbocharge your dev workflow? Check out these AI helpers: - **Sentry**: catch bugs before users do—try 2 months free with `tastytreat`. - **Langflow**: drag-and-drop AI agents and MCP servers—build custom workflows in seconds. - **Whisper Flow**: flawless voice dictation that finally understands your technical lingo. - **Dia Browser**: chat with your tabs, highlight text for instant video answers, and ditch ChatGPT! Plus, dives into Raycast AI integration and local UIs like Comfy UI. Stay ahead—experiment, iterate, and share your favorite finds! ## ✅ Action Items: **Prompt:** “Analyze the video ‘AI Tools you should know’ and map each tool to opportunities for open-source advocacy and contributor education in WordPress. Highlight how Sentry’s integrations, MCP workflows via Langflow, and community-built extensions (e.g., Dia Browser plugins) can be incorporated into workshops, onboarding sessions, and sustainable funding proposals for OSPO initiatives.” ## 🧪 Hypotheses: 1. Workshops featuring Langflow increase contributor engagement in MCP plugin repos by 40%. 2. Voice-to-text training reduces developer documentation time by 25%. 3. Embedding Dia-powered chat in WP documentation improves self-serve support metrics by 30%. ### 📊 Methodology: - **Data:** GitHub PR counts, documentation edit logs, support ticket resolution times - **Design:** Pre/post workshop A/B tests; user surveys on tool adoption - **Analysis:** t-tests on time-savings; correlation of training attendance vs. contributions ### ❓ Questions: - Which AI tool resonates most with new contributors? - How do security practices change when automating via MCP servers? - What barriers exist for non-technical community members adopting node-based editors? ### 🔮 Future Research: - Longitudinal study of productivity impact from AI-browser integration. - Comparative analysis of hosted vs. self-hosted AI UIs in contributor contexts. - Economic modeling of sustainable funding for community-built AI extensions. ### 💡 Implications: - **Knowledge:** Defines best practices for AI-augmented open-source workflows. - **Practice:** Shapes curriculum for developer advocacy and OSPO training. - **Policy:** Guides governance on AI tool adoption and plugin security standards. ### 🧠 Learning Styles Assessment: - **Visual:** - **Present:** Few diagrams; mostly verbal demos. - **Improve:** Add flowcharts of MCP & Dia chat flows. - **Aural:** - **Present:** Podcast audio; strong speaker delivery. - **Improve:** Offer transcripts with embedded audio clips. - **Verbal:** - **Present:** Rich examples; conversational tone. - **Improve:** Provide linked detailed blog posts. - **Kinesthetic:** - **Present:** Live demos in video. - **Improve:** Interactive code sandbox for Langflow. - **Logical:** - **Present:** Stepwise use cases. - **Improve:** Decision trees for tool selection. - **Social:** - **Present:** Call for listener feedback. - **Improve:** Create forum threads for tool discussions. - **Solitary:** - **Present:** Personal reflections by hosts. - **Improve:** Journal prompts on workflow experimentation. - **Naturalistic:** - **Present:** None. - **Improve:** Use ec - Summary: Scott and Wes round up the hottest AI tools you should have on your radar; from text-to-speech wizards to self-hosted image generators. They break down what they’re using, what’s worth paying for, and which tools are changing their workflows 🔥 Be the ~14,700th person to join our super tasty newsletter https://bit.ly/syntax_snackpack Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 00:49 Getting too cozy with your tools. 01:34 Brought to you by Sentry.io. 03:40 LangFlow. 08:44 Super Whisper and Whisper Flow. 15:00 Dia. 23:16 Chat apps. 26:58 Self-hosted. 27:01 Comfy UI. 31:27 Automatic1111 and Forge UI. 34:11 Sick Picks & Shameless Plugs. All links available at https://syntax.fm/917 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: https://x.com/syntaxfm Scott: https://x.com/stolinski Wes: https://x.com/wesbos CJ: https://x.com/CodingGarden Randy: https://www.youtube.com/@randyrektor http://www.syntax.fm Brought to you by Sentry.io #webdevelopment #webdeveloper #javascript #syntax #syntaxfm #webdev - URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R21LWuTAOjo Oh, welcome to Syntax. Today we're goingto be talking about AI tools that youshould know. These AI tools are allkinds of different things, whether thatis stuff to help you in your day-to-day or possibly even some codingstuff, but just really possibly littletools and tips that you mightnot have seen or tried yet. My name isScott Dinsky. I'm a developer fromDenver. And with me as always is WesBoss. What's up, Wes?I was, when you were doing the intro, Iwas just trying to adjust my seat. Itwas — there we go. It was going too farback. I hit the wrong knob and Ijust went all the way down. Should do a whole episode like thiswhere I'm just at the bottom. [Music]Yeah. Excited to talk about the different AI tools that we're usingright now. I think like the one thingthat I know — let me get up here. The onething that I keep telling myself is likedon't get comfortable in the toolsthat you're using because even withClaude AI, you know, like I kind ofbrushed it off for a couple of months. Iwas like, "Ah, you know, I'm happyWith cursor. And after talkingto how many people are using this typeof thing, I'm like, I got to keep abit of an open mind with these tools. Give them all a good shakebefore saying, "Ah, that doesn't seem thatuseful." Yeah. Give it a good shake. Yeah. Cool. Well, are you ready to go?Actually, before we do that, ifyou're given anything new, a new shakeat all, whether that's a new codinglanguage, or a new application that'sstarting to gain traction, you'llwant to be using Sentry at sentry.io.It is just a wonderful tool for solvingyour problems. We all have problems. Ihave problems. Wes has problems. I don'tknow if Wes has any problems, honestly.Plenty of problems. Okay. Well, we allhave problems then. And Sentry is theperfect place to solve those problemsbecause let's face it, there are too manyother problems to deal with to haveproblems in your codebase. And Sentrygives you tools to solve those problems. They provide you tools to have visibilityinto those issues, whether that is aslow application or a buggy applicationor even just being able to trulyUnderstand what your users are doing andhow and why. So check it out atcentry.io/sintax. Sign up and get two months for freeusing the coupon code "tasty treat." Andguess what? Uh, Sentry is like — I know,Sentry's always just been a toolthat's evolving, but man, they're goingthrough some awesome stuff with new UIs,new tools, new features, and theproduct just rules. It's justone of these things that they're notresting on the fact that they have agood product. They're consistentlyturning it into a better UI. Is that out foreverybody now? Like I know that you canturn it on, but is that — I think that'sthe default now? I'm not sure. If youwant to give the new UI a try, thelittle question mark help thing, and thenthere's a switch to new navigation, Ithink is the way it's listed.That's very good. Like it's amazing thatthey can simplify the UI orthe menu so much, but you still getall of the same amount of informationand all the information you need,which is probably most important, right?Yeah. Give me the information I need. Make it easy. And Sentry absolutely doesthat. All right, you can stop talkingabout Sentry now. We love Sentry, folks.Uh, Sentry actually has some really coolAI tools. We should do an episode onthat at some point. The first one I wantto talk about is one that I wasn't evenaware of until JS Nation this pastlittle bit ago. Uh, JS Nation ReactSummit just happened. I was MCing. Manyof you may have seen me up on the stageintroducing Q&A. A lot of reallyamazing speakers and a lot of cool peoplewere there. Huge, huge crowd. And, uh man,what a great run conference. They alwaysare. Um, either way, uh, Tiskumar did atalk on Langflow and langflow.organd I was just one, and besides, he's anincredible speaker. So, he could betalking about something I'm notinterested in and it's still going to becaptivating. But this tool really didcatch my eye as being a reallyinteresting tool. And what it does, even just reading their tagline,it's a powerful tool to build and deployAI agents and MCP servers. And it comesbatteries included and supports allmajor LLMs, vector databases, and agrowing library of AI tools. This thingIt is a node-based editor. So, um, if you'veused any other node-based editors, ComfyUI is a node-based editor. Da VinciFusion Node-based Editor, Max MSP. Basically, you have boxes and you'reconnecting them like patch cables to theboxes to do things, right? You gotboxes, you got inputs, you got outputs,you got little things that come in andout. You connect them to each other.Yes. And so you might have an input thatis a chat input and you might have anoutput that is a chat output, right? Andyou put an AI model in between there,you got a little chat window, right? AnAI chat window. But the demo that he didI thought was really interestingbecause he did a demo that was live onstage where he was connecting a box toessentially browse the page of theschedule for JS Nation because this was the wholepoint that was about, you know, theseinterfaces. Website interfaces are all so varied andwild that it might not be easy for you to get the informationyou need. So either way, he connects aninput chat input, he connects it tothe website, he connects it to anagent, and then he connects it to, IBelieve, an MCP server to integrate withGoogle Calendar, and he was ableto say things like, "What time isShudy's talk at?" And then it would justtell him, "Shudy's talk is here, right? And then add that talk to my calendar,right? Contextual blah blah blah." Andyou could build these little widgets andlittle tools with your own API keys inseconds just by connecting these things. And if you look at the tools that theyconnect with, it is just a massiveamount of stuff. Whether that is Superbase,Slack, or even Upstash or Perplexity,there's a lot of little things that youcan connect here and there. And we hadbeen talking in the last episode werecorded about where is like the "if thisthen that" kind of these things. And thiswould not necessarily be an "if thisthen that," but it does give you a lot oftools to connect many different serviceson your own via a nice little UI in away that you could really see that asbeing a power user type of thingwhere like, "Ooh, I really want to do this,then this, and connect ittogether instead of maybe writingthe code or going into a chat window andWith the cursor and having the MCP serversconnected, you can build reusable workflows and things like that. Ifound that to be simply lovely. Uh,so Langflow is my first tool, and Ithought this was great. Um, I believeit's open source, so you can check it outon GitHub. Um, very cool stuff. What'sthe idea? There's a company behindthis because I went to download it. Itried to check this out a while ago andit makes you put in an emailaddress. I immediately thought, "Oh,this is some corporate stuff."Yeah, it's by DataStax. DataStax hastheir own AI agents and production AIagents. They have their own product andpricing. So, this is just the toolitself that you can download and use onyour own. Oh, so there's no subscriptionfee here because you're simply just connecting thingsthat you can connect anything, right? You can put your own API keys in.You can probably, assuming, have localmodels. All your own API keys. Yeah. Oh,okay, cool. And it's a Python appthat you download as a desktop app.Yeah, it's really great. I'm anode-based UI kind of guy. Having a node-based UI for doing this typeof thing seems really nice.So yeah, give Langflow a check. I think this is pretty neat. The next one I have is I was workingwith John Linquist, who is really into alot of this AI stuff. He’s obviously theguy that started Egghead, and werecorded a little episode about how heuses his computer. He’s next level in thinking on how to use allthese things, and one of the tools thathe was using that I had written off fora while was an app called SuperWhisper, and there's another one calledWhisper Flow, which Keny Dodge is using. So, I’m going to give them both a goodshake. The idea with both of theseis that they are desktop applications that dovoice-to-text. I had written offthese things for the longest timebecause macOS has voice-to-text builtin. I hit my control key twice, and I candictate what it is I want. I thinkif you are not using voice-to-text andyou're just typing like a barbarian,I highly recommend hooking up one ofthese tools to a hotkey on your keyboardso that when you want to type something,you just hit the microphone key. Whatever, and you just speak what it isyou want. Now, these tools, Super Whisperand Whisper Flow, they use Whisper, whichis an open-source model for doing speechto text. But what they do is they are better.Like what I just did rightthere; I said, "But what they do, they —you know how I kind of stutteredthere? Mac OS would just literally takeevery single word that I have and put itin there, and I have to then take it out. These apps are better at this. See, Ijust did it right there. I said theseapps. That’s just hownaturally we talk, and they’re morecapable. Would I correct you if you saidmore at dictating it? And then, ofcourse, they have a whole bunch offeatures where you can add in words thatyou say a lot, and that’s huge for peoplelike you and I, where we’re always sayingthese random made-up coding words. Um, yeah, exactly. That’s the biggestproblem: getting them to recognize theword "sentry" as not "century." And Ispecifically was trying Super Whisperfirst, because it’s Canadian, and becausethat’s the one that JohnLinquist was using. But you can alsodownload additional models. You can useThe one in the cloud. You can stream itto the cloud, or you can downloadlocal models and run it on your machineif you have a fast enough computer. Theone thing that it doesn’t do is itdoesn’t provide real-time streamingof the text, which Mac OS does. I reallylike that. As you’re talking, you cansee what you’re saying in real time. This one, you have to say it andthen stop, and then it generates theactual text for you. I assume thatwill probably come because I’ve usedWhisper before, and you can stream theoutput while you’re talking. You don’thave to wait for it to be finished. Yeah. Do any of these work on iOS aswell? I don’t know how you wouldintegrate that with iOS considering thetext-to-speech is so baked into the OS.Whisper Flow says it has an iOSapp. Okay.So, I would assume it’s justa custom keyboard, right?But switchingkeyboard can be slow on iOS.Yeah. So, I don’t know if that’s a problem, but theone on iOS is actually pretty good,especiallysince as you’re talking, you can juststop talking and then type stuff, move your cursor around. And then continue talking. Like, it'snot like you're in dictation mode or outof it. It's kind of fluid. Um, so I'm abig fan of the Mac OS one, but theseapps will probably get sherlocked atsome point via Mac OS just implementingthis same thing. But iOS has never fixedtheir keyboard. Uh, and their voice-to-speech, text-to-speech has always beenkind of poor, even if you can typein the middle of it. But I do use itkind of non-stop. I just wish therewere some of these nicer features. Likeyeah, correcting certain words or, yeah.I don't know. Yeah. Uh, this looks nice.I do use a lot of text-to-speech, soor speech-to-text. Speech-to-text. Yeah. So, I'm going to give these a goodshake over the next couple of weeks. Shakethem off instead of using the built-inMac OS one. And I'll try the iOS appand see how that fits into my flow.Yeah, I'm quite surprised thatRaycast hasn't done this yet. That seemslikeripe for Raycast adding this feature.Yeah, Raycast is probably going to beneeding to work on some new featuresafter this Mac OS announcementrecently. Announced like Raycastish features.Yeah, they're just like enhancing. Yeah,definitely Raycastish.And you can use a shortcuts app in them.The shortcuts app in Mac OSand on iPhone is actually reallypowerful and I don't see a lot of peopleuse it. So I wonder if it's just I Idon't have any; I highly doubt Applewill.The thing about Raycast is it'slike power users, developers first andI highly doubt Apple's going to putout something where there arethese little edge-case bugsthat they'll never fix. Yes. So frustrating. So I don't feel scaredfor Raycast. I am excited thatMac OS is putting that in though becauselike it's just everyone who uses acomputer should have that kind ofproductivity.Yeah, I agree. AlthoughI will tell you what getting Courtneyto use Spotlight to open anything islike, because she'll just like go into herdoc and click on it or whatever. I'll belike, you know you can do commandspacebar and just type in what you wantand she's like, "Okay, thank you." Oh, yeah.That drives me nuts. Teaching like a boot camp. It was reallynice because I could just show peoplehow I worked. Yeah. And a lot of peoplewould be like, "I want to do that. I wantI see, I see that that is much faster,"you know, rather than telling people howto do it, 'cause they're just like, "I can'tbe bothered." Yeah. Yeah. For sure. Um,the next one here is something that maybepeople have heard of, um, or maybethey haven't, or maybe, uh, they're verybitter about this because let me tellyou, we just released our browser, ourbrowser episode about the state of webbrowsers, and I got to say, man, peopleare really, really intense about their browser choices. I mean, I feel like weknew that, but like people are eitherreally angry or they're very like, "Yourbrowser sucks," or whatever. But onething, one very common thread was that alot of people were very angry at thebrowser company for sunsetting Arc, andI get it. I liked Arc. Yeah, rightly so.Yeah, Arc was my favorite browser.Here's actually two camps: people werelike, "Arc has always sucked and, uh, youwere bad for liking Arc," or two, um,I loved Arc and I will never trust thebrowser company again. I understand both. Those, um, but I will say this toolsince I got access to the beta, it saysDia Browser. So, diabrowser.com.It's an early access for ARC members.So, if you've used Arc in the past, youcan just download it and, uh, give it arip.I think this thing is the start of whatwe're going to be seeing from browsersin the future here coming forward,because this in many ways is like a cursorin your browser. Um, you can referencetabs directly. There's a kind ofconstant chat window about any of thetabs you have open. You can ask itquestions about a YouTube video even. So if you have a YouTube video open, youcan ask questions directly about theYouTube video itself. You can compareseveral tabs at once. Like you canreference tabs. So, like if, let's say youhad several different hotel options, youcould reference those various tabs ofthose various hotel options and ask itquestions. I think that is reallypretty neat. And in practice, whenyou command T to open a new tab, thesearch window that you get is either asearch window or a chat window, as in itcan be both of them at the same time. So, by default, when you go to open anew tab, you can either just type in aURL, type in a question, or type in something you want to actuallysearch for. You can reference tabs, other things, and websites;you can get answers directly there. To me, thisis starting to break the barrier. Instead of you,I’ve been using this now for about a weekand I have not opened ChatGPT since Istarted using this because it’s like,what's the point? I hit Command T, and it'salready got a chat window. I starttyping or I’m asking it questionsdirectly about something that’shappening in my browser, and it’s alljust there. Fundamentally, how Iwork has already changed in theweek that I’ve been using this browser. It is in beta. I have seen a couple ofthings that people who are Arc fans willlike. I’ve seen on Twitter them sayingthat the sidebar is being implemented.So, the sidebar navigation, I believe,will be coming back for people who arebitter and upset about that. Ithink there’s one major feature that Iwould love to see from this. It does not exist, and that would be the abilityto truly interact with the page viathe chat window. Let's say I have aspreadsheet. I would love to be able tomake these modifications to thespreadsheet and have it do it, which itcan’t do right now. I do think that issomething that they are working on, butI don’t know for sure. What does it do? It’s just a chat app that knowsabout your open tabs and can answerquestions. One of the cool things isthat there is like a default profilefor you. How do you like to learn? Whatdo you like to do? So, for instance,if Dia knows that I learn best through video,when I go to search and ask it for something,like a question about a video game,instead of going to Google andsearching for answers about this videogame, Dia knows that I like to learn viavideo. So if I ask that question toDia, Dia is going to give me links, butit's also going to give me YouTubevideos directly in those results thatare directly related to the thing thatI’m asking about. So it's kind of likea mishmash of perplexity with somethinglikeGPT and then being able to referencetabs. So there's a lot of little features that I haven't necessarilygotten deep into, but like, yeah, youknow, you’re on a website, youhave a question about some text, you canhighlight that text and then ask thequestion directly in the browser; youknow, with like one click. So I highlightsome text, ask Dia — um, ask Diaabout this, and then Dia will gooff and it can do more research. Itcan find additional links, and um, yeah,it's not like revolutionarily different,but there are enough niceties in thisthing that it's already changingthe way primarily that I’m browsingand interacting with the internet. Now,the one thing I don’t understand aboutany of these new paradigms of browsers iswhat’s a mobile? Everybody’susing mobile; like, why release adesktop browser as the main interface? This thing would work great on mobile. Why,isn’t this a mobile-first browser, youknow? I don’t know.Yeah, that’s maybethey’re going for like theiraudience, which is power users, to betheir early access. Yeah. And then once they have product marketFit, as they say, maybe they'll moveinto something that's a little bit moremobile. Yeah, if you want to get morelike use cases for this thing, theirwebsite has a number of examples ofthe different things you can do with itthat are currently supported orwhatever. But either way, a lot ofpeople were wondering why you would everuse something that the browser companymade after what they did to you withArc? They didn't do anything to me withArc. They made a free browser and thenthey sunset it. Okay, yes,you can say people have theright to be upset about that, you know? They pulled the rug on it, and peoplewere excited about a tool. No, butlike we’re also upset at allthe stuff Google sunsets, and I won'tpay for most of that stuff as well. Youknow, like you hope that a company hasyour best interest in mind, especiallywhen you spend your time, you invest in a product.You know, yes, you invest your time. Dia imported all my Arc settingsand all my workspaces and all my logins,and like the next thing you know, it's likeyeah, the UI is different. Slightly different, but all of the stuffthat I've accumulated in Arc is stillhere. Uh, yeah, so I mean, I'm not thatmad at it, especially because thisbrowser is good. If this browser sucked,then maybe, yeah. Then maybe I'd bepissed about it, but it's good. So, Idon't know. I think, yeah. You got to think, OpenAI's got to put out a browsersoon because it makes so much sense tobrowse the web with the chat rather thanthe chat just give you some externallinks that you can click off to if youneed them. Especially like, thisdefinitely verifies that to me becauseI'm, like I said, I have not beenopening ChatGPT. I've been using this.Yeah. And especially that it can accessstuff that's behind a login, like OpenAIChat can't do that. And then, like,that's the whole promise of MCPservers. But, yeah, surfing the web isthe original MCP server, so it makes sense. I'll give it a shot.Yeah, give it a rip. I'll give you an invite. It is uh,yes, it has been one of those thingsthat I have done a 180 on, from beinglike, well, I'm out on thebrowser company to being like, well,they got it. Uh, yeah, browser. The company has hands, for sure. Let's talkabout chat apps and things thatyou're paying for. So, whatare you paying for rightnow, and what do you, I guess, you'rereaching for DIA right now as your mainchat app? Yeah, I'm using Dia as my mainchat, but I do pay for ChatGPT,especially because that's what Courtneyhas gotten really used to using. Um, sowe just share ChatGPT. I alsopay for Claude, but that's it.What about you? I pay for Raycast. Um, Iwas using Raycast as my main chatapp for probably over a year,but I have been pushing myself a littlebit more to ChatGPT, because I really likethe memory features it has. So, I wastrying to translate some shirt sizes into American sizes, and I just tooka screenshot of it and I was like, whatshould I do? And it's like, "Ah, you're5'10", 200 lbs. You probably should dothis." I was like, "Oh man, it knowsthat, you know?" And I was like, that'skind of nice. So, I like that. Iobviously like the image generationstuff, it is really good. I've been payingfor Midjourney for probably three years, butI think I'm at about a point where I'mI'm going to cancel Midjourney because ChatGPT is just good enough. And theother thing about Raycastis that the Raycast AI opens in its ownwindow, which is really nice. Um,you can go through it, but it justdoesn't have a desktop app or a desktop icon. There's something odd about itbeing a popup, where I feel like I'mgoing to lose it. It's always weird.I can't describe what that feeling is. Um,the other thing is that I havethis nice cobalt blue theme forRaycast, but it's not a good theme forviewing text. Um, and there isn't a lotof control in a Raycast theme. So, Iswitched it to white and black to see ifit's a little bit more comfortable, but I justfeel a bit more comfortable in Chat GPT.It doesn't make sense because youcan—it's way cheaper to pay forRaycast. I think it's like eight bucks amonth or something like that versus twentyfor Chat GPT. So like you're savingquite a bit. I have not used Raycastreally ever for AI stuff. Like I like Raycast, butI primarily use it for windowmanagement, launcher, etc. Thosetypes of things. Yeah. Yeah. It's it’sIt's really good, especially since its time to answer is really fast. I knowChetchup has a desktop app, and then youcan set up a hotkey or whatever,but my hotkey for almost everything isRaycast. So, it's kind of nice beingable to do it because you just type inthe box and hit tab. You don't even haveto open an app. I have caps lockto go straight to the AI app. But youcan also just ask something straightaway in the Raycast prompt and hit tab,and it will fire it off there aswell. So give it a shot. Spending moretime in DIA for that. Yeah. And then I was on DeepSeek for a while because Ifelt like that at one timeDeepseek was by far the best, and itwas free. It was searching the web for a while, so everynow and then I'll dip into DeepSeekand see how it is. But it's kind of funny how you're just bouncingall over the place trying new stuff. Idon't think regular people are doingthat though. I think regular people areprobably just using ChatGPT, and theydon't really know much more. Totally. What about self-hosted stuff? I havedove into Comfy UI because specificallyThey have a desktop app now, which, man,running the Python thing was reallytough for that. You know, Comfy UI isinteresting because you're basically generating node workflows, butit is kind of a wild world of connecting these things. Like if I wantto generate an image of a computer programmer sitting at his desk orwhatever, I have to then research which models to use, which all the stuffto use, and then I click go, and then I wait an hour, and then maybe somethingcomes out. Maybe I wait, maybe I waitthree hours and then something comes outand maybe it sucks. So, as far as like I'm not doing anything on it. I am likelet's give this a rip to see how the hell this thing works. Allright. I got it to produce this. Okay, and then that's it prettymuch for me. Yeah. I've downloaded ComfyUI. Um, I've downloaded all the modelsspecifically for a lot of the stablediffusion stuff, which is anybody whohas one of these headshot generator startups. Um,they're almost always using stablediffusion, and it's kind of a weirdworld. A large portion of the self-hosted company UI is just people making inappropriate anime stuff. It is. It is.I joined the Comfy UI Reddit and then I unjoined it about 10 seconds later. I was like, "Holy cow, these folks areand those are the people doing stuff in public. You know, there's got to be way worse stuff happening behind the scenes."But it does a very good job. There's one plugin for it, which is like a face mod. You can take people's faces,basically. I wanted to make YouTube thumbnails of myself, and I wanted to feed it a photo of my face and be able to generate a YouTube thumbnail.This was before you could do this in JBT. In order to get the face dupe stuff to work, you have to jump through a couple of hoops. And they explicitly do not host any that will do anything bad around adult stuff or child stuff, which is good.Yeah, I know that that whole thing can get a little complicated.Guppy UI, it's been pretty good. The one thing that kills me though is I just run out of space on myComputers are so fast because these modelsare 20 to 30 gigs. You know, you got two orthree of them, and then like we'redownloading, we're streaming ourselvesand recording ourselves. That's like 50gigs for an hour or whatever. So, I oftenwhen I'm scrambling to free upspace on my computer, I'll just deletethose models. And now that I havesuper fast internet, I don’t mind havingto redownload them. For me, here's whatI found. I have a Mac Mini back there. Ijust throw that [\_\_] on there becausewhat else do I have on my MacMini? I have my Puck server. So, Idon't have to bog down my actual machine. But I haven't tried to do any video.I would imagine that would cause my entirecomputer to blow up. Yeah, you got tohave a serious machine to beable to run this stuff at any speed. I thinkwhere this stuff is really big isfor someone who is generating lots ofcontent, but they don’t necessarily careabout how long it takes. So, some likea garbage Etsy seller is making 20,000Tumblr posts of likewhales shaking hands withbears that say "Dads are the best" ifThey'll, there's just like every possiblepermutation on sublimated, on a crappyTumblr. Put it on Etsy. Those people are using these to justgenerate absolutely every singlecombination there. Yeah, that would bewild to be using this stuff for anythingother than just, huh, all right, thatworks. Cool. You know, yeah, I think itwill probably get better. Um, butalso,running local models is getting better.It is getting faster,even like in the browser. I had a wholetalk on it, especially with web GPU now.But some of these really big ones area bit of a resource hog. Yeah, for sure. Alongside Comfy UI,there's Automatic 111 and Forge UI.Those are sort of alternatives as well.Seemingly like competitors or similar tools toLangflow. I have only dipped intoAutomatic 111 and Comfy UI, so I'm going tohave to give these other ones a goodshake as well. Is this Automaticprimarily based aroundimage generation? It does say stablediffusion web UI. If you've ever usedlike Hugging Face or anything like that,It's kind of similar—it might even bethe same hugging face, the same interfaceof it as well. But yeah, if you want tobe able to use stable diffusion to makea Lego version of yourself orwhatever, it probably was not somuch anymore, but it was a very goodbusiness to fire up, turning yourchild's photos into a coloring book. Yeah, for $6 or things like that.There was head shots and all thesedifferent things, you know, touch upyour face for dating profile images. Ido think that the image generation stuffis probably the least excitingthing for me because it creepsme out—a little like the fact that people aregetting fooled on all kinds of stuffthese days, and it's just like, it’s alittle not my thing. I'm mostinterested in, which is why Langflow isinteresting to me because it's much moreproductivity-based, which I'm aproductivity fan. By the way, speakingof hugging face, I met our homie,Zenova Joshua Lochner,Nation. What a wonderful dude. He had a great talk, and just a super coolguy. So I got to interview him on stageeven. Oh, really? He's the author ofTransformers.JJS, which allows you torun local AI models in JavaScript, so inthe browser or in Node, things likethat. And yeah, he sent me aphoto of you guys. And I was like,whoa, face reveal. Because like when he cameon the podcast, hewas not comfortable even showing hisface. I’m like when he said he’sspeaking at that conference. I was like,that’s for sure remote. There’s nochance he’s going to do a face revealbut he did. That’s a Yeah, what a coolguy. So yeah, shout out to Joshua. Yeah. Cool. Well, that’s all I got. Uh folks,what kind of AI tools are you out thereusing that we didn’t mention, coding orotherwise? I know we just did a codingtool, a coding agent show and stuff.Though, I want to know what kind ofstuff specifically you are using becauselet’s face it, this is like, have youever seen one of those images on onTwitter that’s just like here are the20,000 new AI tools and you’re justlike, I don’t have time to look at allthese. So, hate those guys. Yeah. No,these are ones that you probablywant to check out. But let us know if wemissed any. Okay, now it’s time for thePart of the show where we do sick picksand shameless plugs. I got a sick pick,and it's a kids' card game. My kids gotthis while I was in Amsterdam, and Ithink it was just so they would havesomething to do while I was away. Itis called Rat A Tat Cat. Um, and it's kind of an educationalgame, but man, our kids love SleepingQueens and a lot of these card gamesthat they've been playing. This gameyou can get for like 12 bucks. It's acard game that was super easy to pick up.Um, again, my kids are like six andeight, but I think they probablycould have played this at five andseven, no problem. Maybe even younger.It's kind of a memory game.There's some math involved, and mydaughter, who is six, like cannot stopplaying this game. She wants to play itevery night. It's quick enough whereyou can rattle off a game in aboutfive minutes if you want. You can play awhole bunch of rounds, and that way,you know, if somebody, like I lost everygame the other night, my kids can get alittle upset if they've gone through several games and haven'twon once. So, the fact that you canPlay enough games that eventuallysomebody probably different will win. Uh, it’s nice. Um, but it's a nice littlecard game for kids. Um, yeah, you can getit for 12 bucks on Amazon. It’s reallyreally nice. Sick. I’m going to stickpick our hats. Um, which is kind of ashameless plug as well, but um, by thetime you’re listening to this, youshould. So, we got the syntax oneright here, right? Um, then we got theinternet one, which is currently sold out,but we got a whole bunch more on theway. By the time you’re watching us,there probably are back in the shop. Um,and then we also got the syntax feltones. And like, let me tell you, theseare high-quality hats. This is notjust a floppy hat that someoneembroidered and then like it's likea crappy swag item. These are hatsthat you’re actually going to wear. These are high-quality hats. Look atthey’re all custom. Look atthat syntax tape inside. Custom tags.There’s a spelling mistake on the tagbecause I forgot to fix it. Um,all kinds of really good stuff. So, ifyou want a nice hat, check out, uh, whatwhat's the URL of our store? There, Scott? Sentry.shop.Sentry.shop. And you click on thesyntax collection, and Sentry's actuallygot some pretty sick t-shirts. I wore mydead click t-shirt yesterday. Yeah. Andmy daughter was asking what a dead clickwas, and I was like, well, you know, onyour iPad when you click onsomething and nothing happens after a little while. She'slike, yeah, I hate that. I'm like,that's a dead click. And then I was liketrying to explain that there's also rageclicks when you tap it multiple times.And she's like, "Oh." I'm like, "Thesentry will fix that or at least showyou what happened when," and she'slike, "Okay, that makes a lot ofsense." So check it out. Check it out. Uh, love this. Love it. I wore mysyntax hat all day every day inAmsterdam. So that's, I don't know aboutyou, when I go traveling, it's hattime for me. Although it has often beenhat time for me very frequently. Um, hattime for me, definitely traveling. I don'thave to deal with a bunch of stuff. Cool. Well, thank you so much forlistening and hanging around with us. Wewill catch you in the next one. Peace. Peace., AI Tools you should know, Syntax, 01jzjr12zeae2p716t412q16p6.