I Ranked EVERY AI Tool Overrated or Underrated (Claude Code, Bolt, n8n, ManusAI, etc)

0:00So today we're going to go over the AI tools that people are talking about on X. And we're going to talk about if it's overrated or underrated. Okay, this is going to be spicy. Yeah, we'll be a little spicy.

0:13Ras Mic:Like if any, it somehow adds an affiliate. I don't know if they have an affiliate, but if they do, it's over. It's over, dude. Please tell me they have one. They make, oh yes. They're going to make so much money. for as of recording this it's underrated but we're gonna look back on this video in six months and be like why were we talking about madness claude code underrated extremely underrated which is crazy because it's you know it's all over my feed right now everyone's talking about it i think yeah claude code if you're a non-technical person is more daunting but just just try you're not gonna a single prompt of 50k a month sass but i do believe that we live in a world that it's completely possible to use things like cursor to use some of these tools to develop something that you can make 50 000 a month for minimum if there was any time to start something that has the slightest chance of being successful there's no better time than today

1:26Ras Mic:okay so i share my screen and okay we'll do tools and you tell me let's start first tool n8n um overrated or underrated greg i think uh well what do you think i think underrated only because if you know what you're doing you can do well but if you have like you know there's not an ounce of like like if you don't use modern tools like you're not a heavy google drive user you're not on slack always or you're not like setting up automations email automation you haven't used zapier before then yeah this is basically useless and i think we've all been seeing it on twitter it's the new drop shipping like i actually have like if any yet somehow adds an affiliate i don't know if they have an affiliate but if they do it's over it's over dude like it's please tell me they have what they make oh yes they're going to make so much money so yeah this is definitely the new shopify because i see everyone talk about automation so i think in that sense it's overrated but i have a feeling you think otherwise well here's my take because you come at it from like a developer perspective so you you look at it and you're like yeah i can go out and make these these charts myself i'll just you know even if even if you don't want to do yourself you go to chat gpt you'll get the json you'll copy and copy and paste but for the vast majority of people they copy these workflows and they don't work for them or something's broken or they don't know how to do it so i think for the vast majority of people it's overrated makes sense but i do think for like somewhat technical or technical people it's underrated i get that i call it non-technical and technical organizations like so you might not be physically writing code but like you understand like uh technical concepts so i do agree but yeah if they somehow like start promoting this and do what shopify did this is a billion dollar company um i we have the tab here we're actually playing with it you said so basically spring string or spring string yeah sorry i have string.com at least um so they're built on top of pipe drive which is basically an n8n competitor yeah exactly so i feel like what string is doing i'm not involved in the company in any way but do you have to disclose that a lot nowadays i don't know people the comment section is always like oh you're because I just did a tutorial on string and people were like this is a paid thing and I was like no I literally messaged the founder like the night before and I was like I saw your product and I think it's really cool and I actually had tweeted about that the future of automation is prompt to automation just because I think that people don't want to sit and make workflows all day especially like non-technical people no that makes sense so and I can vouch that you probably message them because that's how I hopped on the channel.

4:22Ras Mic:You literally messaged me and I'm like, and I thought it was a scam at first. It was someone else. So I can vouch, but. I messaged him the night before. He was like, I'm leaving to Europe for vacation. But if you want to hop on tomorrow morning, let's do it. So founder mode. Yeah, founder mode. Okay. Anyways, point is, I think string.com, although parts of it are janky, like they need it. It is an alpha for a reason. Yeah, they do mention alpha to that point. And by the way, I respect him in the tutorial he did with me. He basically was like, parts of it are janky. I respect founders of AI companies that are saying stuff doesn't work all the time.

5:02Point is, I think that if you start using things like string.com and you start creating these automations, so much is going to unlock in your brain for how to save time, make money, that I think string.com is actually underrated. And I hope that the N8Ns of the world...

5:19Ras Mic:actually implement this yeah i think it'd be it'd be very powerful if they did and i don't see why they couldn't they they're they're so profitable real quick i need to tell you about something that's helping me sleep better at night as an entrepreneur i was running multiple companies with money scattered everywhere zero spending visibility and making growth decisions pretty blind. I knew there had to be a better way and my friend told me about Brax. So I switched and now I have mission control for every dollar. Spend management and visibility, virtual cards for my team and earning cash from the same day treasury product.

6:04I was leaving so much money on the table but not anymore. I have a financial operating system for our businesses to make decisions so I can spend smarter and move faster. And it's been a total game changer. I'm loving Brex so much. I reached out to them and asked them to sponsor the pod. If you're building something real, you need a complete financial operating system like Brex. It'll help you sleep better too. And you can't be mad at that.

6:36Ras Mic:Lindy.ai seems like to be something similar, but fair to say, is it more marketing s yeah it's it's i mean n8n is marketing in a lot of ways um but lindy what i like about lindy underrated is that it has the templates so it's got like i don't know 100 plus templates that will be like okay you want to create like an automated email uh you know email outreach agent we're gonna go and you press a button you can copy and paste that template and it works for you and then you know for me why i think it's underrated is i love seeing templates because it's like it gives me ideas around like okay maybe i wouldn't use it for this use case but i would use it for that use case that makes sense yeah that makes sense okay so i need to try out lindy uh for some marketing stuff because i'm terrible at that i just know how to make content uh clod code underrated extremely underrated which is crazy because it's you know it's all over my feed right now yeah i'm talking about it but man like i like if i had to pick one for the rest of my life let's say like ai just stagnates here for for the end of time and you told me cursor wins all these tools and i should probably add that to the list who would you uh stick with it's cloud code it is the first time and i and i showed an example here earlier while we were chatting.

8:04Ras Mic:And there have been a lot of videos on how to prompt, creating an MD file, having a PRD and giving that as context. And those skills are important. And I'm glad people are thinking like that methodically, like a product person. I actually want to even talk about GitHub later, just give a simple crash course for most people to understand how to use it. But CloudCode essentially showed us that they could build an agent that does all of that. So it'll have, it'll track its own tasks. It builds out a to-do list. It has its own plan. It executes on that. It writes tests. Most developers, I would say, or most indie hackers, I would say, hate writing tests.

8:46Ras Mic:I hate writing tests, but it's necessary. Sometimes. But you should still do it. It's safe, right? You feel good about the product you're building. CloudCode does it automatically, right? So in my opinion, if you're a developer and you haven't at least even tried CloudCode. What are you doing? Yeah, and even if you're not, please, just like there's tons of tutorials. I'm sure Riley has a video. Like Riley always has a Cloud or Cursor video. Like there's some video there I would spin up Cursor, Winstrap, whatever you like, and use CloudCode because it's truly, in my opinion, the truest form of agentic coding we've ever experienced.

9:24So for a lot of people who are non-technical, even going into Cursor is daunting. Your suggestion is non-technical people should spin up something like Cursor, get Cloud Code.

9:37Ras Mic:If it was easy, everybody would have done it, right? Like, honestly, like, I know it's difficult and I speak from a place where, like, these tools are easy to me. But I just, I think you would do yourself a disservice to not try. At least try. And if you get stuck, guess what you could use to figure out what to do next? AI, right? So yes, the tools are not built for non-technical people, but I would still use it. And one thing that's exciting too about Cloud Code is they also released an SDK. So a lot of like the AI platforms can now use Cloud Code's agent instead of building their own. and I was at the Cloud Code Conference and when I was talking with their team, they essentially were like, we're gonna advise a lot of these AI agent, especially coding agent builders, to just use our agent because in a respectful sense, they're basically like, we'll smoke you.

10:35Ras Mic:Our agent will always be better, right? And I think Cloud has kind of proven and won and owns the sphere of programming. So I wouldn't be surprised if all the Vibe coding tools and any coding tool like Dev and Code Rabbit it the level bolts the temples the bolts figma make hosting your air table all of them anything regarding code i i do see a near future where they probably just implement all this because why go against researchers who are now valued at like 100 million dollars a year so i think yeah cloud code if you're a non-technical person is more daunting but just just try okay so under yeah i agree with you by the way underrated for both technical people and non-technical people yeah somehow because once you get it it's and like there's this i have a little graph here i mean it wouldn't be a ross mike greg video if there's no graph and i would put like clod somewhere clod code somewhere here where it is difficult right it is difficult to use it's not the cleanest ux they want you to use a terminal and the terminal can be terrifying but there's nothing like it so i would put clod code right here by the way you know we should add to this list is the last one i can't believe we didn't think about it what did i miss mcp

11:55Ras Mic:oh no oh no you know you pissed my people off uh i know i pissed thousands of people off with my takes on mcp but we'll get to that uh towards the end of the episode um and then yeah so and then there's these new class yeah of tools i haven't used devin so devin and code rabbit okay So I would basically, I would say these two are like the closest thing to an actual assistant. So Devin and CodeRabbit are meant for you to build projects from scratch. Show me Devin and CodeRabbit. Yeah, I can. So I'll start with Devin because I've been actively using it. So Devin looks like this. And first you think, oh, this is like, you know, any of the Vibe coding tools.

12:42Ras Mic:But it's actually meant to be integrated with an existing code base. And here's the powerful thing. There are three powerful things about Devon. First, they have this thing called DeepWiki, which basically is like you can add whatever code base is in your GitHub. So you can imagine for someone building a serious project, you connect your repo. and then I don't know how the AI does it, but it contextualizes your entire project and breaks down exactly how it works. And I can't explain to you how valuable this is for anyone building something. You might not even be technical, but reading this document will actually help you understand how this system was architected, right?

13:27Ras Mic:Like for example, by the way for those looking at this this is like an app i i made for a few friends and essentially what it does is it helps you create apple passes for like your community and it breaks down here how passes are created and it'll tell you here for apple basket web services implementation device registration pass update see the web so it knows that i used an external service apple basket and it tells me if I click here, I can read more about it. And then there's diagrams explaining how the APIs work, what the flow is, like what end point each, like for example, device registration endpoint, it tells me it's this one right here, shows you even the back and forth, like for anyone in an organization, or even like maybe a small team, like three or four people building something serious, this alone is worth however much Devin is charging.

14:22Ras Mic:So this is number one. Number two, and this is also one of my favorite features, is you can like start a session and you can basically tell it to either fix a bug, add a feature, and you can run multiple of these. But here's the, I think, here's what's special about this, is they have integrations. If I go to settings and integrations, you can integrate Slack and linear. And like in your linear ticket, Like let's say you have a PM write out all the features. And this is where I think, yes, it's for software engineer teams, but even a non-technical person in a team can use this. Like imagine you have a detailed spec on linear on what this new feature needs to be.

15:04Ras Mic:You can literally add Devin, build this, and it will take all the linear information and it will start to build a feature. And then it will create a PR on GitHub. And I can show you one where I had an issue and I asked it to fix it. and I can literally, can I click here? It literally wrote the PR. And mind you, files changed. It's one simple change. It was just removing this line. But I spent hours trying to figure out why is this not working? We've all been there. So like, and like the PR is detailed, like there's reviews. I also use CodeRabbit as well. And then it shows my Vercel deployment and then I merged it in.

15:46Ras Mic:So it's a different class, But might I say, probably the most useful, like the Devins and the CodeRabbit and CodeRabbit is somewhat similar. Like it does reviews and stuff like this. I don't know if they fully have this type of feature. But I would say they're sort of in the same realm and they're actual assistants. And this for me, like if I was running, if I wanted to build something serious and I was working with two, three people, I think something like this can actually be used by a product person who maybe knows how to write like a product document. and they can ship features using Devon and I can review the code.

16:23Ras Mic:And that's what a lot of my work has been at like now. I review more code than I write, to be honest. Like I'll let Cloud Code do its thing. I'll let Devon review, like do something here. And I'm just trying to understand what it's done and if it makes sense. If it makes sense, I'll let it, I'll merge it. If not, I hold it back. So, and they have like a, I think you pay$20 one time and then it's pay as you go. So, you know, just try it out. $20, a little fun. I think it's underrated. It's not for everybody, but you won't know till you try. I think that's fair. And CodeRabbit? Yeah, so CodeRabbit is in the same realm.

16:59Ras Mic:Like these are like the assistant agents. I haven't given it a full spin, but where I've used CodeRabbit before is when you're doing these PRs pull requests, and I'll explain it when we get into like the mini GitHub crash course, it reviews your code. and there's actually maybe I can find the tweet code with so there's this youtuber called code with Antonio super G guy he is like the reason why most dev youtubers no longer do like four or five hour tutorial videos he's just the best at it and we've all decided that he just runs this space and what's interesting is he tweeted this he said in the last 90 days I released three courses which CodeRabbit reviewed 77 pull requests, left 42 comments, found 66 issues, and left 61 suggestions for me.

17:52Ras Mic:Can I even say that I developed solo anymore? Just install it already. Damn. So, and the thing is with CodeRabbit, what's cool is it'll identify an issue. And let's say, because someone I can already imagine, someone's like, but I'm not technical. It'll give you a prompt to give whatever agent you're using to fix it. Context, code snippet, and everything. Right. So like and when I tell you that Antonio is a G, like if I like I just need to show you the stuff he does, Greg, because I feel like I'd appreciate it. He built a lovable cone the other day, like and he does this himself, like full on two billion dollar business.

18:32Ras Mic:He built it himself like and he goes line by line. So like if you're someone who wants to learn how to code, like he literally takes you like this is what, 10 hours. and it's free and it's free yeah it's literally like it's free like he gives you everything and he and he and he talks pretty slow so you're not gonna miss anything he's not a fast talker like me like so if someone like this who's and all his videos are like 10 hours uh what's this one one hour 46 this is actually his shortest video 11 hours eight hours is this this is crazy yeah This is all free, bro. This is all free. I told you, as developer YouTubers, we have all decided that we will never do a video like this because you don't beat this, right?

19:22Ras Mic:So if he thinks it's changed his workflow, like 66 issues, especially in a production code base, this is serious, right? Like I know vibe coding is exciting and you could build your own project, but if you plan on having real users, which I hope you do, security is something serious you have to talk about. You know, your project actually working, users information being safe, payments being safe. And yeah, so I would say the code rabbits and the devins of the world are super underrated. All right, let's move on. By the way, we should give a disclosure. You do work at Tempo. I do work at Tempo.

19:59Ras Mic:So I'm biased. you know i get a paycheck every two weeks yeah um but with that being said what do you think actually i'm curious i put bolt lovable and tempo all in one line even though i think tempo is slightly different but maybe that's the bias talking i haven't used tempo to be honest yeah so i can't rate it but uh so i'm leaving that out of there okay um to me both bolt and lovable are are very similar yeah so um i mean if you haven't tried bolt and lovable it's underrated yeah if you have tried bolt bolt and lovable it's overrated if you don't know how to prompt properly and it's underrated if you know how to give prompt it and give it context yeah i agree i think like anyone who's used bolt and lovable seriously will start to appreciate like how difficult it is to build software because like there's a certain level you reach and it starts to get difficult right um so to me they're underrated in a sense where that initial joy everyone experiences when they prompt something and like result shows up yeah is like i've seen it and like a lot of people like it's it's it's it's amazing to see people experience that unlock but then it gets to a point where you want to take it really really far um i actually think the next big wave of business is our infrastructure companies like your super i mean super bases are yeah but like your super bases your convex is like these back end as a service companies that will basically handle all that nitty-gritty stuff and like can easily connect to some of these vibe coding tools i think those are the big, big business plays.

21:49Ras Mic:And that's where like, you know, anyone who says, oh, we need to replace like AI replaces engineers. Now you need engineers to build that. Yeah. Because that stuff is hard. And there are even certain things that even cloud code is amazing as it is can't do. But I would say for what it, it unlocks and what it's done. And I think how it's inspired folks. I think it's rated fair. I think the people who love it, love it for a reason. and if you haven't used it and you use it it feels like a new world and then in terms of like is Bolt better or is Lovable better I think it goes down to like you know is Excalibraw better or TLGO draw right that's how I feel about Cursor Windsurf I know I didn't put it here too I get it all the time which one's better Cursor Windsurf and it's like they both release updates at such a pace just pick your camp and stay with it I also think like there's nothing wrong with prompting both yeah i mean yeah like you could literally have both right so i agree with you um i don't think there's like a notable because it's always like i feel like it swings in pendulums like one week bolt is better the next week lovable is better the next week this is better that is better and i i think for the most part unless there's like specific features that one has that the other doesn't i think as a non-technical person um you're living you want to move on to number seven yeah so these are figma make hostinger air table i haven't tried and i probably will never try because these are companies that i think figma doing it makes sense okay explain people don't even know yeah so figma is like the designer toolkit right designers they're going ipo yeah they're ipo and is it a smart thing to buy an ipo because circle you know i read on google oh you're not supposed to buy an ipo that's when the investors dump it circle went like forex but this is financial advice so maybe we'll talk i'm actually a figma shareholder full disclosure

23:52you know but i keep it real i'll be honest with figma make i think it's overrated yeah i think

23:58Ras Mic:so too i think do you think it was more so for optics versus like they actually want to like maybe compete with the temples the bolts the lovables like because to me it's like i didn't think they had to do that i mean i remember when i sold my company to we work it was a it was a mobile app and we work needed plays like that because they wanted to be valued as a tech company right so before you go ipo um it's really really important to be like on trend makes sense and that adds to like the you know um the valuation and the excitement of whatever it is you're doing so my guess is that the you know i don't have any inside information about figma just to be clear like i'm a small shareholder via i invested in a company that company got bought by figma and i got some shares um so i know nothing like inside about it But that being said, like, I would imagine that they're like, oh, wow, the bolts and lovables are crushing it and tempos are crushing it.

25:09You know, how do we get a little of that pie so that so that the market gets excited about our IPO?

25:17Ras Mic:Makes sense. Makes sense. Yeah. So that that seems like Hostinger has one, too. Airtable has one, too. And I mean, if you want to have one, too, you can go on code Antonio's video and follow his thing. So I definitely think like, I don't know, do you think anyone can come in this space right now and be as big as the Bolts and the Lovables? Like, because like, it just seems like every week there's a new one. Well, yesterday, I think it was leaked that Lovable is raising at a$2 billion valuation. Kudos to Lovables. Totally. We talked about investing in Lovables, you remember? Yeah. And we didn't.

25:58Ras Mic:you know i told i told one of my bros about it and i was like yo i think they just raised two billion i was like at the time i think it was this much and he was just like looking at me like bro what are you doing it's just like man at the time it just you know yeah but kudos to them actually you know stellar execution 100 like just world class it's yeah you know irregardless like one thing i will say and i think we share the same testament um competitor or not no other person or not i i genuinely just love seeing people win i love like excellence winning that's what i like i like that about you yeah like there's no like i don't be for no we're just here to you know do great things so it's like i love like you know as much of a like you know competitor or you know whatever they are like excellence is excellence man and and they've executed and it's been inspiring And the pie is huge, right?

26:57Ras Mic:Everyone can win, man. Everyone can win. I'm a big believer we all can win. Nobody has to tear down nobody to win. That's right. Yeah. That's right. So, yeah, I don't even, I'll be honest, I haven't used Figma Make. I haven't used the Hostinger one or the Airtable one. Although Hostinger is a great VPS provider, you want to, I think they even have a template to host your N8N. So, like, cool for them, but I haven't used any of these and probably won't. Cool. so how about manis i know you you're big the biggest video on the channel is a manis video not the biggest but it was one of though yeah it's a top video you know because i think manis was one of the first like agent yeah like it felt like oh this is like a jarvis like it could do stuff for me you can leave it yeah and you were able to watch it browse in real time yeah yeah which was also really cool i still use manis a lot i think it's underrated i agree i think I've used it a few times for research stuff, and it was pretty good.

27:59Ras Mic:Now, my only concern, if I was part of the Madness team, is with OpenAI's deep research and all that stuff, you think they'll go into that direction, or you think Madness is a specialized tool enough where there's still a place for them? I think as of recording this, it's underrated, but we're going to look back on this video in six months and be like, why were we talking about Madness? I feel you. yeah because like it's like i mean sam said it in like the most you know gangster way i can ever think he's like just make sure you align your growth with us otherwise we'll steamroll you right so it seems like with operator and with like deep deep research even perplexities pivot to like a browser like you know i i wouldn't want to i wouldn't want to battle those guys no i will also say with manis is i was using it the other day and it was like connect your instagram

28:58i was like i don't think so you know the chinese government you know let me just get your information no yeah okay yeah so be careful on manis with you know giving your information yeah i i genuinely

29:12Ras Mic:I actually have not a theory, but a hypothesis that every site should just be signed up with Google. Yeah. Like done with the email password stuff. Because if you sign in with Google, there's no way you can really do anything heinous with my information because Google will take care of that. Yeah. They give you just enough. So yeah, having to give IG access is pretty wild. Also, we added on ideabrowser.com, the new thing I'm working on, we added sign up with Google. It was just email before. And then we added sign up with Google. I was surprised most people sign up with Google. Yeah. Like it's just because like even for myself, like maybe this is me being a developer, like the fact that I have to give you my password and remember it.

29:53Ras Mic:And, you know, like password could potentially leak. I think a couple billion passwords leaked not too long ago versus with Google. Click, click, boom, done. Right. So I'm very like most apps I build will probably only be sign in with Google. And I like that. Yeah. Okay. Vappy. this is more you i've like i've heard like it's a voice agent or something like that right yeah

30:20so it's voice agents that's what it is so it allows you to create voice agents yeah i think it's most people don't have never used it so it's underrated like the fact that you're able to like uh dang yeah 400 000 calls yeah the fact that you can create workflows that allow you to like create a twilio number and then start calling you know add an excel list of like or google drive list of all these phone numbers and then reach out to them and have convert you know have basically an intelligent you know voice agent speak to these

31:00Ras Mic:people i think is not just underrated i just pinned this i'm gonna play uh with their api later cool last but not least come on man come on man okay show them the theo let's pull out the theo tweet uh theo is not happy so theo is like you look up to theo right theo's my guy like i like i will say he was one of the inspos like one of the biggest inspos for like tech youtube um like for dev youtube like his like and and like i can i can honestly like give credit where credit is due like i grew a lot as an inch because of his videos um where did he he tweets a lot dang okay so let's see so while you're pointing that out i tweeted that i think that and here once you once you understand mcp you never see the internet the same way by the way the context there is i was talking about non-developers yeah when non-developers understand what MCP is, it's like a light bulb moment around, wow, I can use LLMs in this way.

32:09That's all I was trying to say.

32:11Ras Mic:Yeah. And yeah, I think like, again, Matthew is a very smart developer, but this is the classic case. And if you're watching this, if I'm wrong, let me know. But this is a classic case of a developer thinking from a developer's mind. Like I read this and I understood because I have a lot of, I would say 90 % of my friend group are non-developers. Yeah. I spend most of my day with non-developers versus developers aside from my workplace. So I get what you mean when this blows your mind. When a friend of mine on, I think it was Claude Desktop, set up, I think it was a Gmail connector or something, and he was able to ask something about his emails, blew his mind away.