Peter Yang
Everything Peter personally uses, recommends, or has created — plus things they don't recommend — sourced from their own show and appearances on other podcasts.
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Ranked by repeated personal use, excluding sponsorships.
Personal use in 11 episodes
"If I'm being honest, over 90% of my work with AI still happens using these two tools. ChatGPT and Codex are still my main drivers for work. The UI is pretty messy, but I find it very flexible and the fact that it's backed by OpenAI gives me some comfort that it's not leaking my sensitive information."
▶ 14:07"I built a single AI prompt that will get either ChatGPT desktop or Claude Desktop or whatever harness you use to walk through all these steps for you."
"Overall I would say I still prefer Grokbot as number one. I still use it every day along with ChatGPT and Claude for individual work streams."
"Yeah, I really like Astra's version. I think it's very simple... There's a clear call to action to enter the email address. And down here, I really like how Astra used ChatGPT image generation to add images of people I've interviewed, to add illustrations here, and I like how simple and clean it is."
"I've been using it as my default harness for the past four or five months and overall it's incredible. The voice mode, computer use, browser use, all works really, really great."
"For the past 4 or 5 months, I've been using ChatGPT as my default. And this is largely because Claude Opus became too judgmental in its personality."
"I still use ChatGPT for everyday work."
"I use a system of AI skills that work together to automate 90% of this process. I just want to show you guys how I actually work with ChatGPT — instead of just doing a bunch of demos or trying a bunch of new tools, this is how I actually try to save time and get work done."
"GPT Astra just launched and this is by far the best model I've ever used for building games. I worked on all four games at the same time on Friday night using Astra on Medium. I think you can get quite far even on the $20 ChatGPT Plus plan."
"ChatGPT is the clear winner for me right now. And at the pace that the ChatGPT and Code Assistant is shipping, I'm not sure they're ever going to give up the lead."
"GPT is the best by default if you already pay for ChatGPT and Codex. You can get good performance and lots of usage for just $20 a month. For me, I want to pick OpenAI Codex and I want to pick GPT-5.5."
Personal use in 10 episodes
"You can use it for Hermes, you can use it for Codex. It's just useful to have a computer that's available 24/7. The reason I like using Hermes for chief of staff work versus Claude Code and Codex is because I can talk to it through Telegram while on the go. Claude Code and Codex, as great as they are, just feel more like a coding interface."
▶ 2:41"ChatGPT and Codex is still where I do real work. ChatGPT work runs tasks in the cloud, while Codex works with files on my laptop. Over 90% of my work with AI still happens using these two tools."
"I pretty much use Codex for everything. I was like a total Claude fanboy even a few months ago. But I discovered Codex — the browser use is just incredible on Codex. Like half the stuff I use doesn't even have any APIs and I just get to click around and figure things out."
"Can Grok Bot actually replace ChatGPT and Codex, which is my current daily driver?"
"Personally, I prefer to stick to Codex. This is the key setup step that makes Codex incredibly powerful. People who are really good at using Codex, they have a ton of scheduled tasks going."
"Browser use is the primary reason why I switched away from Claude Code to using ChatGPT and Codex as my daily driver. Browser and computer use is definitely much better in ChatGPT and Codex than Claude Code."
"I mostly vibe coded this app with Codex and GPT-5.5."
"Here's an example of me talking to my advisor in Codex. I asked it, without revealing any confidential information, 'What should I focus on to grow my business?' And it came up with three things... this stuff is very relevant to what I'm actually focusing on now."
"The AI native builders that I know have all largely switched over to Codex because of the generous rate limits, the great app and GPT 5.5, which is a awesome coding model."
"I do use Codex to code. Codex when I want to try to build something real and Claude Code is when I'm just like vibing."
Personal use in 9 episodes
"Grok Bot now defaults to the best model in the market and right now that is Opus from Anthropic. So, previously Grok Bot was using Grok 4.7 as a default and the Grok models aren't necessarily bad, but they're nowhere near as smart as Opus... If you know Opus, you know that it's incredible at making motion graphics and editing videos."
▶ 14:56"What you need to do is to actually sign in to a website, and then you can actually use ChatGPT or Claude to navigate to the change password screen, and then you just step back in and replace your password with a more secure 1Password one."
"If Duet becomes more robust after it exits research preview, I can see myself using it a lot because right now Claude is my main harness and model and this has a ton of memory about how I like to work."
"Sonnet 5.5, based on my testing for a week, is going to continue that win streak. In this tutorial, I'm going to walk through how I made seven incredible videos with the new Sonnet, from memes to motion graphics, to animated illustrations, to product launch videos, and even anime music videos."
"For this game, I actually started in Claude using Fable, but that's only because I didn't have access to Astra for the first day. So you can pretty much do this in Astra and ChatGPT. The big drawback of Claude is that it doesn't have an image model, so it has to generate stuff using HTML and emojis."
"I think Claude is still really great for design and planning."
"If you can afford both subscription plans, I would think of Fable as my planner, my architect, and my designer, and GPT as my engineer and my daily driver."
"Fable is an amazing model, and if you use Claude like I do, it already has memory of all your past interactions. The number one use case for Fable that you should have to try is to just use it to get life and business advice."
"Yeah, I'm a Claude guy now. With Claude I have like very fancy prompts, like very long prompts, but with OpenClaw I just kind of text it."
Personal use in 8 episodes
"I don't actually use Hermes to write code. For doing that, I prefer to use Codex and Claude Code, which are more coding harnesses. The reason I like using Hermes for chief of staff work versus Claude Code and Codex is because I can talk to it through Telegram while on the go. Claude Code and Codex, as great as they are, just feel more like a coding interface."
▶ 12:19"To improve the app, I'm going to switch back to Claude Code because it has browser and computer use so that I can test the app itself... You notice that it's actually going through the app itself and listening to the voice and seeing if everything works."
"I went to Claude Code. And this time I set a goal, slash goal. I wanted to make a 30 to 40-second video exactly like this style, and I linked the tweet."
"Claude Design is actually integrated into Claude Code. So, basically what I did was I opened my fitness app project and I typed /design and can you come up with three alternative designs for my fitness app."
"I used to use Claude Code a lot, and I still do sometimes, and I want to make sure that I have one canonical set of skills between Claude Code and ChatGPT Work and Codex."
"This is my Claude Code app, and you can select Fable down here. Just select Fable 5. And of course, you can select the effort that you want Fable to go with."
"You can also use Claude Code. So, I asked it, without revealing any confidential information, 'What should I focus on to grow my business?'"
"Claude Code is when I'm just like vibing. I find Claude Code and Opus, it's a little more chatty. It makes more assumptions but it can be more pleasant for an asynchronous experience."
Personal use in 5 episodes
"For Grok Bot, I think the killer use case is just having a team of bots here on the left and being able to get one bot to tell the other bots to do work and also add multiple bots to the same chat threads to kind of work off each other. I have a dedicated Grok Bot to do this — it's called X Scout — and it also uses browser use to find the top tweets."
▶ 1:52"Spoiler alert, I think Grokbot is still my favorite agent right now. Basically, I treat each bot as an employee and the free X integration that Grokbot has is really awesome for market research. The downside right now is that Grokbot's email doesn't actually work that well."
"I use Grok bot for cloud-based work tasks that can run without my computer being on."
"Grok Bot is basically a team of agents that run on a persistent cloud computer somewhere in SpaceX AI servers. And the computer stays on 24/7, so the bots keep working even when your laptop is closed. As good as Grok Bot is, and I've been using it a lot, there is a real hesitation here."
"Grokbot is kind of the new player. And it has much cleaner UX than ChatGPT. And I also love how it gives all the Grok agents a 24/7 dedicated cloud computer where they can all live on. But I think it's a little bit less flexible."
Personal use in 4 episodes
"The best thing about this agent is that it just feels reliable to use every day. I used to be on OpenClaw and it broke with every update, but ever since I switched to Hermes over a month ago, it hasn't broken a single time. It has persistent memory, it learns as you chat with it, and it can auto-create skills to get better over time."
▶ 0:37"Hermes is the only open source agent on this list and it gives me the most control. It runs on my Mac mini, and I talk to it through Telegram. Hermes agent does not collect telemetry, usage data, or analytics. Your conversations, memory, and skills are all stored in local files."
"Hermes I run on my Mac Mini at home. It's on 24/7 and it gives it a persistent computer, but you have to go buy the machine and set everything up for yourself."
"Right now, I use Hermes daily for emails, calendar, weekly reports, and more."
Personal use in 4 episodes
"The next one is Muse, which is free. And Muse is also incredible. I think it's super well-designed, probably the most well-designed out of all the personal agents. And it has a killer feature in that it can call US businesses for you... I've also made calls before to negotiate cable bills and more and it's just a massive timesaver."
▶ 14:42"Wow. You know what? I think Muse created the most emotional video... I think Muse did the best job even though the graphics aren't as good as Opus as some of the other options. So, yeah, I think for emotional short, I'm actually going to have to give the award to Muse here."
"Muse is focused on consumers, like being able to call US businesses, book plane tickets for you, sell stuff on Facebook Marketplace. Recently, for example, I used Muse to order a birthday cake for my wife. And for Muse, in my opinion, the killer feature is being able to actually call US businesses."
"Muse from Meta is the best personal agent that I've ever used to date. It actually saved me over $800 a year in my cable and phone bills, which is just insane value for an AI tool that you can use for free. And the craziest part is that it did this by calling customer support to negotiate my bills for me."
Personal use in 3 episodes
"Granola is my favorite AI meeting notes app. I find it very useful to link it to Hermes because then I can ask questions about meetings I've had over the past week and ask it to share insights or action items from those meetings. Luckily, Granola setup is extremely simple — you just have to give it one line to connect using this MCP."
▶ 36:09"I do it for myself actually. I use Granola MCP and it gets the information from Granola but also from my other sources, and it sends me an email summary of what's going on. Super helpful."
"I've talked to folks on the Codex team; they have pretty much daily scheduled tasks going that look at their Slack, their emails, Granola transcripts, and more, trying to help them prioritize and figure out what they should be doing. And add tools like Slack and Granola if you use them."
Warned against
"For some reason they trained the model so that at the end of every conversation it's always like 'if you want I can also do X and Y.' And I got so annoyed about it that I kind of turned from ChatGPT."
"Browser use is the primary reason why I switched away from Claude Code to using ChatGPT and Codex as my daily driver. Browser and computer use is definitely much better in ChatGPT and Codex than Claude Code."
"I don't want to like write a Google like I hate writing Google Docs, dude. Like my entire life."
"I've been using IMDb to track everything, but this interface leaves a lot to be desired. It's just like a straight-up list."
"Hermes is the second personal agent that I ever used after I found Open Claw a little bit too unreliable."
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"Also told it that Sonic, a Comcast competitor, just set up fiber in my neighborhood at roughly half the price."
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"Yeah, I think NotebookLM is now part of the Gemini app, right?"
"This is Josh Woodward, who is the VP in charge of Gemini Labs, Notebook LM, and a bunch of other Google products."
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"I'm assuming everyone's using Antigravity or using AI all the time. I know on the engineering side the bottleneck becomes people are almost pushing too much code."
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"And third, Gemini 4 works behind the scenes to plan multi-step events like this robot arm working through a lab task step-by-step."
"Yeah, and this has only happened really in the past, basically with Opus 5.5 and maybe with Astra and Gemini 4. So, really only the past few months, right?"
"Gemini is great for video generation and also is a little bit more simple to use than ChatGPT."
"What I like to do to personalize my bot and make it seem more human is just to use ChatGPT images, or you can use Gemini to generate a profile picture."
"Gemini 3.5 Flash is a new model, and based on these benchmarks, it looks pretty good. It's outperforming Gemini 3.1 Pro on a lot of things. In some cases, it actually even outperforms GPT 5.5. But, the catch is, of course, that the pricing has also gone up. Although, Gemini 3.5 Flash is still a lot cheaper than the other frontier models."
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"So, just like how everyone is using AI to build personal apps, for example, in ChatGPT, we might soon be approaching a time where people are going to build all their personal games using these world models."
"I had kind of given up on Claude and switched over to ChatGPT. From Opus 4.7 onwards, Claude's writing and personality just got increasingly worse."
"Overall, I'm a little bit tired of trying all these new personal assistants. You have ChatGPT, you have Grok Bot, you have Instinct, and now you have Muse from Meta, but Grok Bot is the one that I've stuck with."
"There are 8 billion humans in the world, but only 60% are even using a chatbot like ChatGPT."
"you can see right now that GPT 5.5 and even 5.4 is potentially leading over the Claude models for agent AI coding tasks"
"The AI native builders that I know have all largely switched over to Codex because of the generous rate limits, the great app and GPT 5.5, which is a awesome coding model."
"For some reason they trained the model so that at the end of every conversation it's always like 'if you want I can also do X and Y.' And I got so annoyed about it that I kind of turned from ChatGPT."
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"Another great thing that 1Password recently launched is called 1Password for Agent Platform. And based on my understanding, what this does is, if you're using Grokbot or another AI agent, it's using its own Linux computer... I think it's a little bit more secure than basically trying to install 1Password on every Linux machine that all your agents use."
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"So, for example, down here, let's say I want to disconnect Dropbox. So, basically I'm going to click this link and I can scroll all the way down and hit delete all."
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"So, this is an example phishing email, right? It claims it's from Railway, but in reality, the from address is actually railway-alerts.com, which looks totally sketchy."
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"The problem, of course, is that all the agents, whether it's Grokbot, Muse, Claude Duet, or ChatGPT dots, they're all running on Linux machines. So, I have no idea who actually did this."
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"I asked it to book an Uber ride because there's actually a default skill called Uber ride in Duet."
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"Starting for example with the sponsor contract with Mercury, one of my partners."
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"Launch a research preview, iterate and prove that it works, and then probably in the future merge it back into the main Claude app, just like what they did with Cowork."
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"The primary drawback of Muse is that it's not really using a frontier model like Opus and Astra. So, sometimes it can make mistakes."
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"It also comes with free AI tool discounts to Replit, Lovable, and a lot more popular tools as well."
"Now it's cancelling Lovable and Equipped Foods. To cancel Lovable I first have to sign into the cloud computer with my Lovable credentials, and we found out that actually Lovable is already scheduled to be cancelled."
"I think Lovable recently launched like today. That they can support everything on Replicate."
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"And Human Review, which is the interface very much like Google Docs and what I just showed you, so you can provide AI feedback line by line."
"Essentially, it's kind of like a Google Docs style interface where I can either make direct edits or give feedback to AI."
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"Generate a funky disco house music with Lyria similar to Daft Punk's Get Lucky."
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"I used to work at Credit Karma, and most of the US is probably living paycheck to paycheck. They're worried about their credit scores, trying to optimize credit card rewards."
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"I wanted to actually have it build a Star Fox style rail shooter with StarCraft assets. StarCraft is probably my number one favorite game."
"Starcraft is my favorite game of all time. I played it non-stop in high school, skipped classes to play it. There are rumors that Blizzard is working on a new StarCraft game coming out this fall, so naturally I had to see if Astra could help me build a StarCraft level."
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"Astra won on website design because it was the most clean and is able to leverage ChatGPT image generation, which to be honest with you, I think Gemini can do too with Nano Banana, but for some reason it didn't."
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"So, each time a new model comes out, I always like to ask it to build Star Fox to see how it is."
"Star Fox is a space shooter from the Super Nintendo days and I really loved playing it as a child. I've been using it to test models ever since GPT-5.5."
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