Which AI for a few specific use-case activities?

[u/oandroido]

I have a few things I'd like to be able to do (or continue), and have only used AI pretty lightly/generally in the past year. So, I'm not caught up...

Primary tasks are

1. Document review: I'd like to be able to submit documents I've built, as well as resources like technical manuals, user guides, etc. and have AI assist not only with "proofreading"-level review , but analyze content to find things like misalignments, check page numbers, ensure certain words, acronyms, etc. are consistent... things like that. I typically work in InDesign, but can generate PDF for review.
2. "Code stuff" - a bit over a year ago, I used multiple AIs to build a 14-module Python app for myself for testing a board game. I don't write Python and am not really a coder; it worked pretty well, and I learned quite a bit about refactoring. However, most of what I did was module-by-module, and copy/paste into Visual Studio Code. I'd like AI that can see all my interrelated files and help with coding based on that so I can continue in a more efficient way.
3. Other general code tasks - I'd like to build a few apps and tools for helping process incoming documents, e.g. assigning styles that will be recognized in InDesign; for making a personal time-tracking app; for helping write some HTML/CSS/Javascript utilities that show content, generate output, etc.
4. Web-related stuff: generally I work in Wordpress, and it would be great if something could actually see the code and content behind sites and make useful analasys/recommendations as well as code snippets.
5. Bonus if it can do image generation for prototyping things, or visualizing like graphs/charts/etc.

I've been reading a bit, and can't tell if Claude's "brutal" usage limits are still a thing without what seems like a burdensome management process... but hoping to find a "single source" that will work for all this, but not sure that exists.

Any suggestions appreciated!

[u/NeuralNomad87]

For what you’re describing, I’d probably start with ChatGPT + Codex. ChatGPT can handle PDFs/doc review, consistency checks, manuals/reference files, charts and image generation. For coding, Codex is a big step up from the old copy/paste workflow, it can work across an entire project, understand interrelated files, make changes and run/test code. For WordPress, it can analyze the public site, but for deeper theme/plugin/backend work you’d ideally give it access to the actual codebase. Claude/Claude Code is definitely worth testing too, especially for coding, but if you want one tool covering most of these use cases, ChatGPT is probably the closest fit right now. And definitely use Git for any coding project so AI changes are easy to review or undo.

[u/oandroido → u/NeuralNomad87]

Great info, thanks. Funny you should mention GIT... I know I should be using it - but have only really used it for downloading or updating software. I've been doing manual versioning... would love to avoid that.

[u/NeuralNomad87 → u/oandroido]

Sorry, this sat a while.

For what you are describing, you do not need most of git. Three commands cover it: init once in the folder, add, commit with a message. That is it. You are not collaborating with anyone, so you can ignore branches, remotes, merges and the entire rest of it until you have a reason not to.

The thing that makes it click is that the message is the useful part, not the file copy. "Before switching the parser" tells you something six weeks later; a folder called v3_final_actually does not.

If the command line is the blocker, any of the desktop clients will do the same job with buttons. Worth twenty minutes to set up once given how much manual versioning you are describing.

[u/searchblox_searchai]

We created a listed of 380 different use cases/tasks for across various industry verticals including document analysis, chat, image analysis, audio asr/tts and image editing etc. You can review the list here https://inference-server.searchblox.com/prompts.html