…spend an entire weekend migrating my keybindings, porting over extensions, and reconfiguring my environment. But it was a trap. What I eventually realized is that the modern dev ecosystem is moving far…
…I load up VS Code, spend hours fine-tuning my extensions, and eventually integrate tools like Claude Code or standard AI plugins to bridge the gap. It felt like the perfect workflow…
…They stayed virtual, and in my eyes, AI has been the best thing to happen to meetings. Thanks to AI-powered meeting assistants, you no longer need to spend time scrambling to…
Jasmine Mannan Mar 23, 2026, 7:30 AM EDT Jasmine is Software and PC Hardware Author at XDA with years of tech reporting experience ranging from AI chatbots right down to gaming…
…I could search across apps, use voice search, and keep moving. I did not have to spend as much time navigating around the interface or wondering what part of the screen was…
…Continue was the only AI extension I’d use on VS Code for months, as it meshed well with my local LLM, but I’ve since moved on to llama-vscode. Credit…
…But Claude is a family of AI products from Anthropic, which includes Claude Code, Claude Cowork, and the chatbot Claude AI. The latter is mainly what I’m concerned with as a…
…I moved from ignoring it as just more bloat to treating it as an AI tool I could use for both productivity and entertainment. If you are like I was and have…
Jasmine Mannan Jun 7, 2026, 7:00 PM EDT Jasmine is Software and PC Hardware Author at XDA with years of tech reporting experience ranging from AI chatbots right down to gaming…
…Download Obsidian LM Studio Private local AI hub I have spent the better part of the last year testing every AI tool under the sun. But in 2026, the real power move…