Technology

Design
https://www.degreeless.design/
https://docs.google.com/document/d/13GapW8AQWEqzb8IPC_L1DSaeFvqhncBPDSF4ooDoZUA/edit 

Programming
https://aosabook.org/en/index.html#500lines 

AI
Helpful jargon
SOTA model - state of the art model; the most intelligent, advanced, up to date model available in the market (AI companies releases models regularly so you need to keep track)
OpenAI GPT o3
OpenAI GPT 4.1 (4.5 is available but crazy expensive and only as research preview)
Claude Sonnet 3.7
Google Gemini 2.5 (Flash and Pro)
xAI Grok 3
Open-source models - not for profit, available to download and run on your computer (needs powerful machine). They are usually 1 generation behind SOTA.
DeepSeek R1
Meta Llama 4
Alibaba Qwen 3
Multimodal - can take images as input
Thinking model - able to, in multiple times, self-reflect and check response before responding to user. This reduces hallucination and increases accuracy.
DeepSeek R1
Google Gemini 2.5 Pro (Flash is non-thinking)
OpenAI GPT o3
Claude Sonnet 3.7 has a "Thinking" mode
Function-calling/Tool-calling/MCP - it's just another term for giving an AI model access to tools to expand it's capabilities and use (imagine Homo erectus with fire and other tools)
Chat
https://chatgpt.com/ - free
https://chat.deepseek.com/ - free SOTA
https://www.perplexity.ai/ 
https://aistudio.google.com/ - free SOTA
https://gemini.google.com/app
https://claude.ai/new 
Deep Research
https://chatgpt.com/
https://www.perplexity.ai/ 
https://websets.exa.ai/ 
https://gemini.google.com/app
Flash 2.0 is free
https://claude.ai/new 
Image generation
https://sora.chatgpt.com/
https://aistudio.google.com/gen-media 
Generic tools
https://manus.im/ 
Design
https://www.lovart.ai/home
https://www.canva.com/ai 
https://gamma.app/ 
Prototyping
Take note that multi-modal SOTA models can take a mockup (low or high, doesn't matter) and output code.
https://replit.com/~ 
https://lovable.dev/ 
https://v0.dev/ 
https://bolt.new/