Part 3

Tools Of The Trade

The actual software you'll work with: editors, coding agents, voice-to-text, data pipelines, API generators, agent frameworks. Strong opinions on which tools are worth your time and which ones you can ignore for now.

Start with section 3.1 →
  1. 3.1

    Ides And Editors: Vs Code, Cursor, Anti Gravity

    Two camps: general-purpose editors with AI features bolted on (VS Code), and AI-native editors built around agent workflows (Cursor, Anti Gravity).

  2. 3.2

    Coding Agents: Claude Code, Openclaude, Others

    Four categories of coding agent: frontier-coupled CLI, frontier-decoupled CLI, IDE-integrated, and other CLIs. A decision tree at the end.

  3. 3.3

    Voice-to-text: Wispr Flow And The Dictation Workflow

    You think faster than you type. Stop typing. Wispr Flow at ~150 words per minute versus typing at 60.

  4. 3.4

    Mage (still The Move) For Data Pipelines

    v1's recommendation holds. What's changed: now the agent writes the Python, you wire it into the DAG, Mage runs the schedule.

  5. 3.5

    Fastapi Vs. Devii: When To Write An Api Vs. Generate One

    For most small business apps: Devii. For custom logic an agent has to write: FastAPI. The honest comparison's in the body.

  6. 3.6

    Crewai For Agents

    The most useful new tool in this curriculum. Wires together multi-step business workflows that would otherwise require an employee or a SaaS subscription.