For each task category, one opinionated pick — the tool I actually use — plus the alternatives I considered and why I didn't choose them. Updated monthly as the landscape shifts. Stop paying for five subscriptions when you need two.
Each live category has: the opinionated pick, why, the alternatives ranked, a verdict callout, and the use cases that change the pick. New category drops every 1–2 weeks until the map is complete.
You spend more time here than anywhere else. The pick affects how fast you ship, how clean your code reads, and how often you trust the output without re-checking line by line.
claude -p turns it into a scriptable building block.
When a topic needs synthesizing across multiple sources with real citations — not just "ChatGPT, summarize this." The pick matters because bad research synthesis wastes hours validating bad output.
Each will follow the same format: opinionated pick, why, alternatives, when the pick changes. New category every 1–2 weeks until the map is complete.