#ai-dev-tools

Daily Notes

• April 23rd:

  Raycast pushes AI as a sales channel

  Raycast, my favorite app launcher for Mac OS, shipped https://raycast.ai — an LLM chat demo with a bunch of signup prompts. I can probably name 20 chat / research / knowledge base search products out there, and they all are roughly the same thing.

  Don't get me wrong, I'm a paid user on an annual plan for this thing, with AI bells and whistles included. But why does raycast.ai exist on it's own is beyond me. There are better chats that are free (ahem, https://lambda.chat), and it does not really demonstrate why Raycast itself is so cool (local ask-style tools with highly specialized Raycast models).

  

  This commoditization is going to be a bloodbath.

• April 20th:

  Claude Code can turn anything into Cursor

  I got the memo pretty late, but you can just run Claude Code in a terminal in a split pane in any editor, and get as close to Cursor-style agentic IDEs as you need?

  

  The setup for this is embarrasingly easy — install Claude with npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code and launch it in a terminal inside of your IDE. Happy coding.