Otherwise Claude 3.5 is really good and gpt-4o is ok with apps like Plandex and Aider. You need to get a feel for which one is better for what task though. Plain questions to Claude 3.5 API through the Chatbox app.
Research questions often go to perplexity.ai because it points to the source material.
It's just me asking questions/pasting code into a ChatGPT browser window.
I just wish they were better at recognizing when their help is not wanted because I would often disable it and forget to turn it back on for a while. Maybe a "mute for an hour" would fix that.
Allows you to open chats directly in a neovim window. Also, allows you to select some text and then run it with certain prompts (like "implement" or "explain this code"). Depending on the prompt you can make the result appear directly inside the buffer you're currently working on. The request to the ChatGPT API also is enriched with the file-type.
I hated AI before I discovered this approach. Now I'm an AI fanboy.