I wanted to evaluate AI for writing code. I wrote the foundation of this app by hand, reluctantly learning Swift along the way (I kinda like Objective-C and clung to it as long as I could). While doing that, I consulted with LLMs using their web apps. It was inefficient and did more damage than good. Eventually, I got the app to the point where I could use it to help write itself. That worked better than consulting web sites, copy-pasting code and sorting through the inevitable compiler warnings and errors. At that time, I got it to use tools properly and my productivity exploded. The app started to really take on its final form. Making it "self-aware" and capable of doing tasks on my computer really blew me away. The last 1/4 of it was written by itself, though I had to closely supervise to keep it on the rails. There is extensive documentation on the website, but you don't really need it. You can ask whatever AI you've setup to do what you want and it usually will. Works with OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity, Grok, Gemini, Mistral and local Llama providers.

Cogitae

ChatGPT and Claude, but make it Mac-native

ChatGPT and Claude, but make it Mac-native