5 AI tools I use in DevRel

My favorite part about working in DevRel is that I get to work on a lot of different things. But in reality that often means I'm working on eight different priorities at the same time across five different topics in three different mediums.

It would be impossible to produce at my current level of output without AI tools, and by this time next year, I expect that the tools will have advanced to the point that my current level of output would be unacceptably low.

Like everyone else, I use ChatGPT, I use Claude, I use Gemini. But a good portion of my daily AI usage is covered by five independent tools listed below.

Cursor

I am not the world's fastest software developer. Before Cursor, I would only have time to build toy demos to illustrate concepts. Now, I can build robust single-use software on demand.

This was especially helpful when writing Inference Engineering as I was able to write custom software that saved me over 100 hours of work.

Descript

Video editing was slow, and I was bad at it. It used to take me hours to edit a simple video. Now, with Descript, I can go from raw footage to shipped video in minutes.

This is especially useful when making rapid response videos for Twitter and LinkedIn, where I want to record and publish a video within a couple of hours responding to a new model drop.

In Descript, the features I use most often are studio sound, automatic captions, and transcript-based editing.

Flow

I have nine fingers, seven of which can actually reach the keys on a keyboard. After extensive practice, I type at about 50 words per minute, which is half as fast as many professionals.

But I speak just as fast as anyone else, at 120 to 150 words per minute. With Flow, I can dictate accurately and use my voice to instruct agents and write content.

I like Flow better than other dictation tools because it fixes spelling and grammar as well as handles formatting and punctuation. I don't have to spend much time editing the output. It's not perfect, but it has reached the point where it is correct enough to use as a daily driver.

Gamma

When I am doing conference speaking, meetup talks, or webinars, I'm often preparing last minute (sometimes late notice, sometimes procrastination). I'm a confident speaker off the cuff, but I need good-looking slides fast to succeed in a talk.

(Gamma)[https://gamma.app] lets me paste in a document like a blog post and get a polished, branded deck in minutes.

Notion

Effective DevRel work requires context across the entire organization, from engineering to GTM. While I like Notion AI meeting notes, I use the search and chat features to find out what other teams are working on.