AI Stack

What is earning its place right now.

Not a list of every app with a launch tweet. A plain account of what each part is for—and what it is not for.

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Thinking and drafting

Cloud AI tools used as cognitive scaffolding: useful for working through a problem, never a substitute for judgement.

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Building and debugging

Coding agents and local projects, kept close enough to inspect rather than treated as black boxes.

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Local and private work

Local models and bounded experiments when privacy, cost or control genuinely matter.