AI Tools I Used This Month-jan-2026
There’s so much going on in the AI space, and it’s hard to focus on what truly matters. AI tools, platforms, and frameworks are popping up every day like JavaScript frameworks used to be. So I’ll try to keep track with an article every month.
Cline
Vibe code platforms are cool, but they have their limits. They can take you from zero to MVP in minutes. Once you realise that vibe coding is no longer reliable to take your project further, or don’t want to spend anymore $$$, you have to take matters into your own hands.
That’s why I prefer Agent-driven development over vibe-coding, and that’s exactly what Cline is for.
Cline lets you define a project brief, tech stack, system patterns (code style, best practices, etc), and so much more in a dedicated folder called “Memory bank”. The best thing about the memory bank is that it works with any LLM, so you are not forced to use Cline. Switch between different LLMs without writing dedicated rules for each.
Not only this, you can automate different parts of your dev process with Cline workflows. For example, every time you implement a new feature, you have to go through different steps: 1. commit changes, 2. push to github 3. create a release, 4. build & submit to app store, 5. update your to-do list, etc. You can automate all this by defining a single .mdfile and triggering it with /your-workflow.md . So you don’t have to remember multiple commands.
There’s a lot more. Checkout their docs.
Kestra
Ever wanted to build AI agents to automate your workflows or just do some cool stuff? You can do so with Kestra without writing a single line of code.
While Kestra is not an “AI Tool”, you can use their orchestration workflows to build powerful AI agents. I built a research agent that takes a topic -> searches the web -> divides tasks to several sub-agents -> gives me a clean research brief and updates my Supabase database after each step. All without touching the code. You can check it out here.
Coderabbit
Code reviews are one of the most time-consuming, energy-draining tasks in software engineering. Now with AI s̶l̶o̶p̶ generated code, it’s harder than ever.
Coderabbit reviews your code, flags harmful code, suggests changes, creates summaries, and even generates nice sequence diagrams like below.
Vibe Coding
Vibe coding is no longer what it used to be. I’m genuinely shocked when I first tried Google AI Studio. I literally built a tiny AI game in a few minutes.
I thought it couldn’t get any better, then I tried Rork. I built an entire mobile app in a few hours with Expo + React Native, including backend, payments, db, and even published to App Store Testflight.
It’s truly mind-blowing how far we have come from AI tab completions to building apps in a few minutes.
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