VS Code is the best productivity app on my PC, and I barely use it for coding anymore
…It made me realize that I was pigeonholing VS Code as a code editor . With a name like that, you can't blame me. These days, I've adjusted my thinking and…
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I tried to go back to “standard” VS Code after a week of agentic coding, and I felt like I was typing in slow motion
4d agoI ditched Claude Code for Perplexity, then realized I needed both all along
5d agoCodex is powerful but this one setting made it far more useful for real-world projects
6d agoClaude Code is the best AI coding tool I've used, and I’m not entirely sure if I can recommend it
1w agoI ditched Claude Code and OpenCode for Pi, and my coding workflow became predictable again
…Sign in to your XDA account Whatever your feelings about AI-coding are, it's not going away any time soon. Whether you're self-hosting a local LLM or using the…
VS Code is becoming a better productivity app than most productivity apps
…If I ever decide to stop using VS Code, I can open my entire life’s work in any basic text editor from the last forty years. But the real superpower here…
Zed made sense to me only after I stopped trying to replace VS Code
…Zed also approaches projects differently from VS Code. Instead of supporting multi-root workspaces or .code-workspace files, it treats every folder as its own project. That's a real limitation if…
I ditched Copilot on VS Code for this free extension, and it's miles ahead
…VS Code setup Despite its self-hosted nature, llama-vscode is capable enough to hold its ground against the Copilot functionality baked into VS Code. The auto-suggest facility works really well…
I set up Claude Code's newest model the way its creator does, and it makes a bigger difference than I imagined
…However, despite you always approving them, Claude Code doesn't really know that and it'll keep asking you every single time. Well, Anthropic quietly launched a /fewer-permission-prompts skill that…
I paid for Cursor, Codex, and Claude Code for 30 days — only one made me a faster developer
…One month, subscriptions After 30 days of throwing real-world production code, messy refactors, and complex feature requests at all three tools, the honeymoon phase is officially over. Claude Code is the…
I let Claude Code Routines babysit my home lab while I slept, and it caught what my monitoring missed
…A firewall rule can still technically work, but it becomes less readable every time I add another exception. None of those problems necessarily triggers an alert. Claude Code Routines are useful because…
I wrote a script to run Claude Code with my local LLM, and skipping the cloud has never been easier
…Paired with the Claude Code harness, it feels like a real coding assistant, not a glorified autocomplete. Lenovo Thinkstation PGX 9 /10 Brand Lenovo Storage 1TB/4TB CPU Nvidia GB10 Memory 128…
Anthropic quietly nerfed Claude Code's 1-hour cache, and your token budget is paying the price
…There's also a subtler piece of evidence baked into Claude Code itself. The ScheduleWakeup tool that Claude Code uses internally for timed pauses carries its own documentation, and that documentation explicitly…