Most people picked their AI tools in 2024 and never looked again. Meanwhile the leaderboard flipped three times. This is the full list from the video: seven jobs, what most people still use for each one, and what actually wins that job right now. No sponsorships, no affiliate links, just what I'd tell a friend.

1. Writing: drop Grok, use Claude

Grok is fun for hot takes and real-time X chatter, but its long-form writing still reads like a caffeinated reply guy. Claude is the best writer of the current models: it holds a voice, keeps structure over long pieces, and takes edit notes like a professional instead of rewriting everything from scratch. Emails, scripts, essays, landing pages, it's not close for me.

2. Brainstorming: stop digging through Reddit, ask ChatGPT

Reddit is where good ideas hide inside 400-comment threads you'll spend your evening excavating. ChatGPT gets you 80% of the same insight in one conversation: ask for angles, objections, niches, hooks, then push back on the weak ones and go deeper on the strong ones. An hour of scrolling becomes five minutes of back-and-forth.

3. AI images: Midjourney had its era, Nano Banana is the one now

Hot take, but I stand on it: default Midjourney output has a look, and the internet has seen that look a million times. Google's Nano Banana (the Gemini image model) follows instructions with scary precision, handles text in images, does photoreal without the fantasy sheen, and edits an existing image instead of just rerolling it. It's what I use for thumbnails, product shots, and mockups.

4. Learning: Notion is a filing cabinet, NotebookLM is a tutor

Saving notes into Notion feels productive, but a database of things you never reread is just a graveyard with good typography. NotebookLM takes your PDFs, lectures, and links and lets you interrogate them: ask questions, get summaries with citations, and turn any pile of sources into a podcast you can listen to on a walk. Studying with it feels genuinely unfair.

5. Music: GarageBand is a hobby, Suno is a cheat code

GarageBand is great if you want to learn production. If you just need music, a full song, a hook for a video, background audio that isn't copyrighted, Suno writes and produces a finished track from a text prompt in about a minute. Lyrics, vocals, mixing, done. It's the biggest "wait, that's allowed?" moment in this whole list.

6. Video editing: Premiere Pro is overkill, OpusClip does the job

If you're editing a feature film, keep Premiere Pro. If you're a creator turning long videos into clips, Premiere is a truck for a grocery run. OpusClip takes a long video and cuts it into ready-to-post shorts: it finds the hooks, adds the captions, reframes to vertical, and scores each clip for virality. What took an editing day takes ten minutes.

7. Building apps and websites: leave Wix in 2025, switch to Codex

Wix gives you a template that looks like everyone else's template, plus a monthly bill. Codex builds you the real thing: describe the app or site you want, and it writes, runs, and fixes the actual code. You own the result, it does exactly what you want, and "add a booking form" is a sentence instead of a plugin subscription.

The honest fine print

  • The avoid column isn't trash. Every tool on the left is good at something. The point is the specific job: for that job, the right column wins today.
  • This list has a shelf life. The whole reason this video exists is that the answer changed in the last year. It'll change again, and when it does I'll make the next one.
  • Pick per job, not per brand. The real unlock is stopping the one-tool-for-everything habit. Claude for words, Nano Banana for images, Suno for sound, Codex for code. Specialists beat generalists right now.
Your AI stack is a set of hires. You wouldn't keep an employee because they were great two years ago. Audit the roster.

Swap one of these this week, whichever job you do most, and feel the difference before you touch the rest.
– Anir

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