Field Notes
Practical guides, trend analysis, and the weekly report. The fast-moving AI tools world, organized for you.
Field Notes is the AI Tier List blog. It comes in two kinds: guides on how to pick AI tools and where the market is heading, and a weekly report that rates the notable new tools and major updates of the week from S to D. Everything here is written from ranking 240+ tools.
02 · THIS WEEK’S FIELD NOTE
How to Choose an AI Tool (and Get Good Results From It)
Four criteria for picking an AI tool, the current S-tier picks for text, image and coding work, and four prompting habits that get better output from any of them.
03 · WEEKLY REPORT
Weekly AI Tools Report
New and notable AI tools, rated S through D, every week
Weekly AI Trends: Analyzing Gemini 4 Argon & Claude Code
Explore the latest AI tools: Gemini 4 Argon and Claude Code. Discover key features, performance insights, and how these updates can boost your productivity
AI Model Updates: Gemini 4 Argon, GPT-6, and ChatGPT S-Tier
We evaluate this week's top AI updates. Discover the key features and performance breakthroughs of S-tier models like Gemini 4 Argon and GPT-6 to boost you
This Week's AI Trends: ChatGPT Education Update & Mistral La
Explore this week's top 5 AI tools. We analyze the new ChatGPT educational features for students and the performance of the powerful Mistral Large 4 model.
Weekly AI Tool Picks: Gemini 3.8 Flash & MetricsMatter 5.0
Discover this week's top AI tools: Gemini 3.8 Flash and MetricsMatter 5.0. Explore key features and updates to boost your productivity and data analytics w
Weekly AI Tool Review: Claude Fable 5.1 and Live Intercept
We reviewed 3 new AI tools and 2 updates this week. From S-tier Claude Fable 5.1 to the Live Intercept research solution, discover the latest AI trends to
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