List of my July 2026 AI stack for AI generated content: Bad vs Good vs Great

I get asked all the time which AI tools I actually use, so here's the full breakdown from my latest video. Every category ranked: the tool I'd skip, the solid choice, and the one I actually use every day. Links to everything below (I only link to good and great picks only).

🔍 AI Research

• Bad: Gemini

• Good: Claude

• Great: Perplexity
  

✍️ AI Writing

• Bad: Gemini

• Good: ChatGPT

• Great: Claude
  

💻 AI App Development

• Bad: Lovable

• Good: Replit

• Great: Claude Code + Neon + Vercel + Clerk
  

🧑 AI Avatars

• Bad: D-ID

• Good: Synthesia

• Great: HeyGen
  

🎨 AI Image Generation

• Bad: Stable Diffusion

• Good: Nano Banana

• Great: ChatGPT
  

🎬 AI Video Generation

• Bad: Pika

• Good: Higgsfield

• Great: Gemini Omni Flash
  

✂️ AI Video Editing

• Bad: Opus Clip

• Good: Descript

• Great: Claude Code + DaVinci Resolve

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