AI Coding Tips Thread

[Sirrel Squirrel]

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?