I started this article in february 2025, with the main idea of reviewing AI services in the field of Excel like sheets processing for data transfer to online services that use mysql for instance. At this stage, I found and reviewed Julius AI which, as of february 2025, I found exceptionnally good at reading and processing excel sheets: no need any more to spend hours to code parsers, for example when you need to convert excel to mysql. Julius AI is particularly good at analysing spreadsheets by revealing complex patterns in your data. At this stage I was very happy to replace hours of PHP development for parsing excel sheets.
4 months later, Claude AI Sonnet 4 is here with speciality for generating code, or answering specific frameworks prompts like statamic related questions, for example. In the field of code parsing, it is now equivalent to specialized Julius Ai, except that Claude is obviously more generally oriented with the capacity to go back and forth from web serach tools to inside reasoning.
Claude AI also comes with a API powered toolbox that allows you for instance to program machine interaction simulating humans, useful in the case of automated software testing for instance.
End of 2025, Claude 4.5 (released september) does a great job coding stuff. I tested this guy to refactor a Nuxt 3 app to Nuxt4 and really mastered the operation. Also tried lovable to convert csv input from gravity forms to static html, and also to design a nice landing page for specific event related business.
RAG retrieval augmented generation : source IA with your data. I tried this on a html page to build a tutorial on CI / CD, with notebooklm (discovered via twitter’s info about the ultra plan that delivers nice videos) that generates graphs. Very useful to design interactive tutorials.