Been working with 15+ AI tools daily - Warp terminal, Google AI tools and CLI, Aider, Cursor IDE, Minimax M2 for coding and agentic workflows, Higgsfield for video generation, ChatGPT/Codex, Perplexity, Lovable for app building, z.ai for scheduling, and a bunch more depending on what I'm building. The whole point is figuring out what actually works vs what's just hype. Most companies are stuck because they can't find people who know this stuff - according to some 2025 data like 95% of orgs are getting hit hard by the tech talent shortage. I focus on the practical side - AI for code, security analysis, cloud infrastructure, data pipelines. Not theoretical stuff, but what you can actually ship today. The demand for people who can do this is nuts right now, and most projects that need these skills end up abandoned because teams can't find the right people fast enough.