I tracked which AI tools actually shipped my last 30 days of work. The data surprised me. The 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey shipped late December and one number jumps off the page: Claude Code at 46% "most loved" — versus Cursor at 19% and GitHub Copilot at 9%. Adoption is still inverted (ChatGPT 82%, Copilot 68%, Cursor 18%, Claude Code 10%) but loved-vs-used is the leading indicator that matters. I'm an indie operator running an autonomous-business stack — multiple repos, three media engines, a trading bot, a publishing pipeline. I've been instrumenting which AI tool I reach for, for which kind of task, for the last 30 days. The pattern that emerged isn't "use the best tool" — it's "use the right tool for the move." Here's the multi-tool workflow that actually shipped code at A3E this month. The split Copilot for completions. Inside the editor, mid-line, the autocomplete is faster than my fingers and the latency is sub-100ms. I never leave context.…