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COMMUNITY REVIEWS

"I found Guardrails AI to be a strong open-source Python framework for validating, quantifying, and mitigating risks in LLM inputs and outputs. What I particularly like is the level of visibility and control it provides, especially when it comes to schema conformance and structured outputs. It’s a great choice for developers who want more control and confidence in how their LLM applications handle and validate data."

Parul Malik on Guardrails AI

"It has models from various AI model providers, chooses the best model for the application. It has computer models, equivalent to Cowork agents. The best thing they have is comet browser, based on chromium, which can automate a lot. "

Parul Malik on Perplexity

"Compared to ChatGPT, I find Perplexity to provide more technical responses for my work needs (software sales). ChatGPT is great, moreso for personal needs."

Mark Dorrington · Senior Solutions Advisor on Perplexity

"HiddenLayer addresses an increasingly important problem: protecting AI models and applications from emerging security threats. Its AI-specific security focus makes it particularly relevant as organisations move experimental AI workloads into production environments"

Simon Falzon · Head of Delivery on HiddenLayer

"Kestrel AI is an interesting application of AI to cloud operations, focusing on incident investigation and response. The potential value is substantial where engineering teams spend significant time diagnosing complex production failures."

Simon Falzon · Head of Delivery on Kestrel AI

"SwaggerHub remains a strong choice for organisations taking API design seriously. Its collaborative, contract-first approach helps teams standardise APIs, improve documentation and reduce integration friction between development teams and consumers."

Simon Falzon · Head of Delivery on SwaggerHub

"Neon brings a genuinely cloud-native approach to PostgreSQL. Serverless scaling, branching and separation of compute and storage make it particularly attractive for modern development teams that want PostgreSQL without traditional operational overhead"

Simon Falzon · Head of Delivery on Neon

"Zuplo provides a modern, developer-friendly approach to API management. I particularly like its programmable edge architecture, which makes authentication, rate limiting and API policies easier to implement without heavyweight infrastructure."

Simon Falzon · Head of Delivery on Zuplo

"Cursor has tight integration of coding, codebase understanding and AI assistance genuinely accelerates development without forcing developers to abandon familiar IDE workflows."

Simon Falzon · Head of Delivery on Cursor

"A terrific product for quickly and easily creating simple websites."

Chris Herbert · CEO on bolt.new

"Useful AI tool, even enabling code generation via phone app which is super useful for generating generalized utilities needed while on locked down systems. Handy for general questions and is a faster start to finding answers than web searches on the topic."

David Waller · Solution Architect on Claude Code

"My daily driver, co pilot, and junior engineer all in one. Claude code has 10x my productivity on a daily basis. Highly recommend it to anyone wishing to optimize their ai utilization in the workspace and daily life. "

Bill Fackelman · Owner on Claude Code

"I love this product, if you are doing rapid prototyping or static websites it is great. It is reliant on Supabase for authentication and database so if you don't want to use Supabase it makes maintenance more difficult."

Julie Russell · CEO on bolt.new

"I found Guardrails AI to be a strong open-source Python framework for validating, quantifying, and mitigating risks in LLM inputs and outputs. What I particularly like is the level of visibility and control it provides, especially when it comes to schema conformance and structured outputs. It’s a great choice for developers who want more control and confidence in how their LLM applications handle and validate data."

Parul Malik on Guardrails AI

"It has models from various AI model providers, chooses the best model for the application. It has computer models, equivalent to Cowork agents. The best thing they have is comet browser, based on chromium, which can automate a lot. "

Parul Malik on Perplexity

"Compared to ChatGPT, I find Perplexity to provide more technical responses for my work needs (software sales). ChatGPT is great, moreso for personal needs."

Mark Dorrington · Senior Solutions Advisor on Perplexity

"HiddenLayer addresses an increasingly important problem: protecting AI models and applications from emerging security threats. Its AI-specific security focus makes it particularly relevant as organisations move experimental AI workloads into production environments"

Simon Falzon · Head of Delivery on HiddenLayer

"Kestrel AI is an interesting application of AI to cloud operations, focusing on incident investigation and response. The potential value is substantial where engineering teams spend significant time diagnosing complex production failures."

Simon Falzon · Head of Delivery on Kestrel AI

"SwaggerHub remains a strong choice for organisations taking API design seriously. Its collaborative, contract-first approach helps teams standardise APIs, improve documentation and reduce integration friction between development teams and consumers."

Simon Falzon · Head of Delivery on SwaggerHub

"Neon brings a genuinely cloud-native approach to PostgreSQL. Serverless scaling, branching and separation of compute and storage make it particularly attractive for modern development teams that want PostgreSQL without traditional operational overhead"

Simon Falzon · Head of Delivery on Neon

"Zuplo provides a modern, developer-friendly approach to API management. I particularly like its programmable edge architecture, which makes authentication, rate limiting and API policies easier to implement without heavyweight infrastructure."

Simon Falzon · Head of Delivery on Zuplo

"Cursor has tight integration of coding, codebase understanding and AI assistance genuinely accelerates development without forcing developers to abandon familiar IDE workflows."

Simon Falzon · Head of Delivery on Cursor

"A terrific product for quickly and easily creating simple websites."

Chris Herbert · CEO on bolt.new

"Useful AI tool, even enabling code generation via phone app which is super useful for generating generalized utilities needed while on locked down systems. Handy for general questions and is a faster start to finding answers than web searches on the topic."

David Waller · Solution Architect on Claude Code

"My daily driver, co pilot, and junior engineer all in one. Claude code has 10x my productivity on a daily basis. Highly recommend it to anyone wishing to optimize their ai utilization in the workspace and daily life. "

Bill Fackelman · Owner on Claude Code

"I love this product, if you are doing rapid prototyping or static websites it is great. It is reliant on Supabase for authentication and database so if you don't want to use Supabase it makes maintenance more difficult."

Julie Russell · CEO on bolt.new

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