Never understood tiling managers. I want the primary thing I'm working on to be right in front of me, not all over the place. So my IDE might be in the middle of the screen, and a browser might be on the side. But as soon as I want to spend more time in the browser I just move it to the middle, obscuring the IDE.
The answer (for me): 1 thing per workspace most the time. maybe 2 things side by side on a landscape oriented monitor or 2 things on top of each other on a portrait oriented monitor. And: 2 or 3 monitors.
"I want the primary thing I'm working on to be right in front of me, not all over the place." is exactly why people use tiling window managers. The screenshots where people have dozens of apps all shown on a single monitor are mostly memes or to flex their uncommon layout engine.
I have a tiling window manager, I never use the tiling feature, I only have one window per workspace like the previous commenter. Alt+1 is always my browser, alt+2 is my code, alt+3 is slack, etc. Switching to the desired app doesn’t require thinking, and certainly no AI
One window per workspace doesn't sound too appealing with a big screen. There's room for a lot of stuff inside a "workspace".
Similarly, I fixed window management by upgrading to a big enough 4K screen I don't need to scale it up to see it.
I just place windows wherever based on what feels right at that moment. I haven't minimized one in years.
Two windows side by side makes them both too large to be practical. I'd have to get creative enough tiling them I never bothered. We don't tile the papers on our desks either, nobody complains.
Browser? Probably front and center. Chat window? Somewhere in my peripheral vision. If I'm doing a lot of things, I might move some windows over to another virtual desktop.