AI Coding Tips Thread

Sirrel Squirrel · Sunday at 21:56

mid_gen said:
Opus is the best coding model by a country mile, but it comes into it’s own when used with Claude Code.

I’ve tried a lot of the agentic IDEs, they’re all just VS Code in a frock. I tend to just use a plain terminal in VSCode now…for play programming like Python, JS etc. For real programming (C++) a plain terminal alongside Visual Studio 2026 works well.

I built out my MCP server for Unreal a bit more. It’s pretty useful, will tidy it up and make the repo public in the week.

When you say use it in Claude Code, is that just in Terminal?

mid_gen · 2026-02-09T09:17:38+0000

Sirrel Squirrel said:
When you say use it in Claude Code, is that just in Terminal?

Claude Code is Anthropic’s coding agent system, it’s terminal based, although there is a VS code plugin that puts a slightly nicer looking frock on it.

Sirrel Squirrel · 2026-02-09T10:48:07+0000

mid_gen said:
Claude Code is Anthropic’s coding agent system, it’s terminal based, although there is a VS code plugin that puts a slightly nicer looking frock on it.

This is probably a stupid question but if I'm using Antigravity IDE (VSCode in a frock

) and use Opus as the agent model is that basically just the same as using Claude Code?