I use, but I'm thinking about switching my IDE for a change of pace and to explore new workflows. I'm curious if any of you use alternatives like Cursor, Antigravity, or something else entirely. If so, which one do you prefer and why? I'd love to hear your experiences and recommendations before deciding on a switch.

Tell us three things: 1. What you do (job, industry, student, career-changer, whatever) 2. What brought you to Clief Notes 3. One thing you're trying to figure out right now related to computing or AI I'll respond to every single one. And read each other's intros too because the person who's stuck on the same problem as you might already be in this thread. I'll go first I am Jake, I have been working in tech for 15 Years, building with Generative AI for 3 Years straight now! Excited to teach and learn! That's it. Simple, scannable, gives you data on who's joining and what they need, and keeps the feed clear for content that retains people past week one.

Not long ago I had absolutely no background in programming. I started learning out of pure curiosity after discovering AI and realizing how powerful these systems were becoming. At first everything felt overwhelming syntax, debugging, concepts I had never seen before but I kept showing up every day and building small projects. Fast forward a few months later, after countless hours of learning and experimenting, I managed to land my first role as a Junior AI Engineer. The journey wasn’t easy, but it proved to me that with consistency and the right resources, changing careers into tech is actually possible. I'm curious, has anyone else here made a similar transition?

Hi everyone, I am glad to join the community of like minded people building and working with AI. I had a quick question.... I am currently on intel 10600K 24gb 2666mhz ram RTX 3060 TI I am going to upgrade to Ryzen 7 9700X x870E motherboard (haven't decided which one yet) 64 GB of ddr5 ram ( just waiting for markets to cool) and I wanted to know what do you all recommend for GPU's to run ? I plan on running dual GPU s but I want to know if single will be better to run a local AI and automation business ? please let me know below based on the poll which GPU would be best suited and if its better to run single or dual GPU. thank you all in advance.

Hey everyone, Curious what the community is running in production or for daily development. Are you mainly using OpenAI, Anthropic, open-source models, or something else? And more importantly why did you choose it? (performance, cost, context window, tooling, etc.) Also curious about your workflow: what IDE are you using with it? VS Code, Cursor, Antigravity, or something else? Would love to hear: • Your main LLM provider • Your IDE / dev setup • One reason you stick with it Always interesting to see what people actually use vs what’s trending.