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Building Your Personal AI Toolkit: Tools That Actually Matter

This is Part 5 of “The Centaur’s Toolkit” series, where we explore practical strategies for human-AI collaboration in technical work. A new AI coding tool launches every week. Actually, that’s an understatement. Multiple tools launch every week, each promising to revolutionize your workflow. Each one has a Twitter thread explaining why it’s better than what you’re using now. If you tried to evaluate every new tool, you’d never write any code. ...

February 13, 2026 · 9 min · Scott Algatt