My AI Setup for 2026

Four quarters of the year are over. I know it's crazy, but with each passing day, there's a new AI tool in the market which is always in the limelight. It is very overwhelming to see so many AI tools.

But let me share my AI setup for 2026.

As a growing software engineer, my responsibilities have shifted from just writing code, but it still plays a big role.

I usually work with Cursor and Antigravity. I believe most of my tasks are taken care of by both these tools.

For heavy lifting coding tasks and planning, I mostly use Claude Opus 4.6. However, for small tasks, I prefer Claude Sonnet 4.6 or Composer 2 Fast

I use Notion daily for my to-dos and Kanban boards for side projects. Combined with its AI features like Notion AI agent and MCP, I can access meeting recordings and manage information seamlessly.

I can also create custom agents on Slack and GitHub and connect with their MCPs. This allows me to send messages and create GitHub issues directly using Notion.

I also use n8n for building AI workflows, especially where I need deterministic workflows. It helps automate a lot of things. As long as I have API and MCP access to any software, consider it automated with n8n.

I write less, but when I have to format messages and emails, I rely on Custom GPT or my favorite AI browser, Comet by Perplexity.

Custom GPT has almost all the instructions I need to write messages and handle formatting. It is tailored to how I communicate.

Comet browser is an agentic browser with capabilities like reading your screen, summarizing content, built-in AI with your own models, and even voice chat with AI. You can use it hands-free, which makes it very powerful.

For casual use like generating images and making short videos, I prefer Nano Banana Pro and Veo 3.1 These are my go-to models for media generation.

Right now I'm on a Google Pro account, so most of these tools are already available to me. If I were ever to pay separately for a video generation tool, I'd go with Kling.

When it comes to deep thinking or research, Google AI Studio with Gemini 3.1 Pro is my first stop. The reasoning quality there is hard to beat, especially for anything that needs proper analysis.