My top AI tools for planning, edge cases, and PR reviews
In my previous post I listed the top 5 things I use AI for apart from writing code.
Reena Garg asked which AI tools I use for these tasks 🙏 — sharing my list👇
⭐️ Thinking partner for ideas Tool: Cursor (Plan/Ask mode) I use Plan mode to discuss a feature/design: “what am I missing?”, “what can go wrong?”, “what’s the simplest version?”, “how should I break this into steps?”, “How can we implement this?”,
⭐️ Finding edge cases Tool: Claude (Opus-4.6) I paste the context (API, flow, PR description) and ask it to list edge cases: retries, timeouts, caching, permissions, weird inputs, etc. Opus works great for any code related tasks.
⭐️ Code review before the code review Tool: CodeRabbit, GitHub Copilot, Cursor Review These tools are really great to get a review before asking for a human review. I use them on all of my PRs.
⭐️ Turning manual processes into clean steps Tool: ChatGPT / Claude This is usually a back-and-forth conversation until it becomes a clean checklist/runbook and sometimes an automation script.
⭐️ Writing clearer communication Tool: Any AI works, but I mostly use ChatGPT PR descriptions, Slack updates, incident notes — it helps turn messy thoughts into clear writing.
If you’re using any AI tools in a different way, please share — I’d love to learn and try them too 🙌
Cheers, Princi 👩🏻💻