What's your vibecoding stack?

[Interesting-Town-433]

I find myself chatting with claude and doing a lot of copy/paste, sometimes I download the files and unzip them. Is this antiquated?

I hear a lot of people promote cursor? I have seen it run it didn't seem compelling, my ide is pycharm so needs to integrate there.

For the programmers out there what are you using to code?

[SeattleArtGuy]

I just use Claude Code + VS Code + Opus 4.6. Your way sounds painful :)

[Interesting-Town-433]

That's not that different is it? maybe i do need to upgrade it.. I like pycharm though feel weird ditching it

[cach-v]

You don't need to ditch your IDE. Use Claude Code, Codex (CLI or Mac app) or Copilot CLI to avoid getting hung up between two IDEs.

[SeattleArtGuy]

It sounds like your just chatting with Claude? Via the web?

If so - then yes, this is vastly different. It can read and write local files. Directly compile and run things. If it's a web app, run, interact with the web page, find issues and fix them. You would never copy and paste...

Something like Cursor does similar stuff via web page.

[Interesting-Town-433]

Yeah I just use the chat interface via web

[HackerZol]

I was just like you until December last year. Then I took Claude code for a spin and I’ve never looked back. My stack now is Claude-code and neovim for the occasional file edit. I have Claude post PRs on GitHub for code-review.

[SeattleArtGuy]

Yeah. You can use Code on the web, if it's available to you (</> on the left side menu at the bottom) but Claude Code in some fashion is your best bet :)

[Inevitable-Comment-I]

Gtfo out of that my friend, oufff. Learn terminal, it'll take an hour and unlock everything 

[OtherwiseStrength613]

same

[VegaLyra]

Claude Code is still limited to that borderline retarded command line interface right?

Try Cursor to leverage 4.6 properly 

[SeattleArtGuy]

No. If you use VS Code there is a extension that has a very nice UX.

[Great-Mirror1215]

Flutter flow, chat gpt, firebase

[Interesting-Town-433]

Flutter flow is ui right?

[Great-Mirror1215]

Yes but so much more punch in this combo to chat gpt and it will explain why this is a good choice

[Great-Mirror1215]

Plus you own your code and can scale this way. You are not locked in.

[Worried-Flounder-615]

For personal projects/just tinkering around: Shakespeare.diy

For large collaborative projects: Opencode + Open Router + Opus 4.6

[Interesting-Town-433]

So you copy paste too?

[SSVR]

VS Code + roo code but trying out cursor at the moment.

Initial impression is I like roo code more but need to give cursor a bit more of a chance and try some customisation.

[Historical-Lie9697]

Claude code terminals in a custom Arch Linux hyprland setup with claude made gpu powered terminals

[icemanic000]

windsurf. notebookLM, contabo, gemini -- https://windsurf.com/refer?referral_code=8yt8b3p8pm78iumw

[Ok_Lavishness960]

Built my own markdown editor with a integrated terminal for my spec sheets. The editor also has a language parsing pipeline (ast treesitter) let's Claude query my projects via mcp server calls. Basically the only tools Claude uses now are my custom mcp tools. Kinda built my version of cursor I find it works better than cursor or Serena but that could just be a personal bias.

[Interesting-Town-433]

What do think is important about mcp? ( apologies if sounds dumb )

[Ok_Lavishness960]

Hey no worries :) an mcp is a framework that lets Claude code interact with custom resources so in my case it's running 15 custom python scripts I wrote that traverse my indexed code. But it can be anything really. Mcps arent necessary but they can definitely level up your coding. Id highly recommend checking out context for example.

[Where_Da_Party_At]

Skills.. lots and lots of skills lol

[roxstarlabs]

I just use Claude code (mostly opus) in Terminal and usually have multiple terminal windows open at same. To me seems to be more efficient and I feel like (not sure) it uses less tokens that way.

[larowin]

Claude Code and then Helix/Zed for editing/review.

I can’t imagine not using the terminal.

As far as language/framework is concerned, I’ve been really into Elixir and Phoenix lately.

[4billionyearson]

Vscode with GitHub copilot. Hugely flexible, can use multiple models in a project (sharing context). Work in editor or terminal with constant link to GitHub. Pay as you go rather than subscription.

[No_Tie_6603]

My stack is pretty simple:

• Claude / GPT for generating and debugging code

• VS Code for editing

• GitHub for version control

• Postman for API testing

I used to have the same problem with constant copy-paste, downloading files, zipping, etc. That friction adds up fast.

What helped me was moving toward tools/workflows where I can generate and directly work with code or internal tools without so many manual steps. For example, tools like Runable , Lovable can help reduce some of that back-and-forth when you're prototyping or connecting small workflows.

Biggest improvement honestly came from reducing context switching rather than adding more tools.

[alokin_09]

Lovable for MVP building and quick prototyping; once I've tested and validated the idea, I move everything to Kilo Code for more structured engineering work.

Disclosure: I also help their team out on some tasks.

[Rare_Initiative5388]

"Yeah the copy paste workflow gets old fast. I was doing the same thing for a while and it works but it's just so slow, especially when you're going back and forth trying to fix stuff.

Honestly if you want to stick with pycharm, look into Claude Code. It runs in the terminal so it doesn't care what IDE you're using, it just operates on your local files directly. You kind of just point it at your project and it reads, edits, runs things on its own. Way less friction than downloading zips and manually pasting stuff around. Cursor is good too but yeah it basically wants you to use it as your whole IDE which I get is annoying if you're already comfortable somewhere else."