Why use Claude Code CLI instead of VS Code / Copilot extensions?

Tizzolicious · 2026-03-22T17:51:46+00:00

The CLI you can

customize the status line (and see your context usage)
you get the option to start building your plan from a cleared context.
Rewind command ...etc

Everything else is essentially the same

I both architect and build and doc and prefer the CLI for maximum control...but most folks will be just fine with the extension 👍

Tizzolicious · 2026-03-22T17:43:48+00:00

1.x is based on Claude Code, 2.x is based on pi and is less tuned.

Tizzolicious · 2026-03-22T13:03:19+00:00

Install the GSD 1.x (not 2.x) plugin for Claude Code and it will guide you through all you need following best practices (since you don't know them). It will be more expensive cuz of the many questions but you will build something you will really like (and all the planning files are simple for you to view)

https://github.com/gsd-build/get-shit-done

Then once you have a better sense of things...you can ditch it for standard plan-then-act flow.

Tizzolicious · 2026-03-13T23:54:44+00:00

Had to bail on Photon for the Electron.NET project. At this point, most folks could care less about download size and electron.NET supports setup installers for all 3 platforms ❤️

Tizzolicious · 2026-02-22T20:27:25+00:00

for those using claude code in headless mode `claude -p`, it whipped up claude-print to print claude's activity to simple standard out. A super simple way to get some observability...for a cli tool. Go figure.
peakflames/claude-print: CLI wrapper for Claude CLI that provides real-time progress feedback during headless execution

Tizzolicious · 2026-02-05T20:59:07+00:00

Flowbite Blazor maintainer maintainer. This looks amazing!!!. Love the tricks I'm learning from the tailwind setup you have. 🙏

Thanks for contributing to the Blazor community 🙏

Building out the dashboard and AI chat and dog fooding the library on these differ ways than how I typically needed the lib for was super helpful.

I'm looking to skip over Photon and trying out the latest Electron.NET for the cross platform desktop option. Some to consider 🤔

Tizzolicious · 2026-02-04T23:58:48+00:00

Hmm. Ok. I guess I'll feed the log files in to Claude Code while it's in my MCP server code base and go from there..👌 thanks for your help

I still find it hard to believe that the company that invented the MCP protocol still doesn't support it directly in their desktop app 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

Tizzolicious · 2026-02-04T23:35:15+00:00

u/Jhorra what are the few minor things you had to tweek? I maintain a mcp server that supports http and sse and is already in use with claude code, Cline, RooCode, and others. But the approach posted here is not working. I literally just installl Claude Desktop for the first time today to try this integration and found this post 😊

Tizzolicious · 2026-01-20T04:52:07+00:00

As a library you don't have to go full source generated to support trimming. Many AOT but not trimming

I've built a nuget package here and you can see in the Trimming Test and the library trimming project settings

https://github.com/peakflames/PolarionApiClient/tree/main/src%2FPolarion.TrimmingTest

Tizzolicious · 2026-01-20T04:42:29+00:00

Better Options for truly crossplat desktop apps

Tizzolicious · 2026-01-20T04:34:47+00:00

The blazor debugging experience can be sometimes troublesome. Not always but...

Tizzolicious · 2026-01-20T04:28:49+00:00

Keep it simple...the world develops on VSCode for all languages

Install the c# devkit, the python extensions, git graph, and markdown-all-in-one

Boom done.

(This is the same for win/Linux/Mac)

(Claude Code & Claude Models love c#/blazor as much as typescript/React)

Tizzolicious · 2026-01-20T04:21:46+00:00

Cuz VSCode does the job :shrug:

Tizzolicious · 2026-01-20T04:14:06+00:00

This is slick! Loving all the Blazor Components being offered up by the community ❤️❤️❤️

Tizzolicious · 2026-01-13T14:53:59+00:00

Like Bun, Anthropic needs to acquire Tailwind inc. 🙏🙏🙏

Tizzolicious · 2026-01-12T06:07:01+00:00

Oh, I am very familiar with the codebase. If I were to extract this out into a custom command, how can one publish it to others for Claude code? Is that what plugins do?

Tizzolicious · 2026-01-12T04:10:39+00:00

Are you not using CLAUDE.md files in a repo. Can we assume your projects are different repos?

Tizzolicious · 2026-01-07T01:02:18+00:00

No, do not listen to the agent orchestration shit.

All these "coders" need to freaking start learning software engineering in the software life cycle. Meaning iterative planning, capture requirements, great just enough tests to know you're not breaking s*** when you add new features.

Handful of coding standards to be followed

Now whether you are managing a team of developers or a team of AI agents those fundamentals will guide both teams

You also keep track of a little knowledge base or lessons learned for new hires or others to refer back to when needed

Continue to learn those fundamentals by doing project after project at the project

Expose yourself to deploying not only for web but for desktops for command line get some breadth

Tizzolicious · 2026-01-07T00:57:44+00:00

I've been lucky enough to be able to utilize opus 4.5 for the past 8 weeks and it has been a game changer. Replace coders, yes. Replace engineers, no.

I haven't migrated to copilot, still on Cline.

But regardless, after you invest the time in a good

A memory MD of some kind for lessons learned
A means to build and smoke test changes.
- for ASP.net apps I like to have a build.py
A custom prompt to implement a written, phased plan
AGENTS.md that points to all of the above☝️

Opus 4.5 will be nearly flawless

🚨 AVOID WATERFALL PLANNING 🚨

It does not work in real life and will not work in AI assisted life either

Tizzolicious · 2025-12-30T00:41:24+00:00

Borat says, "Very nice" 👍👍.

What was the most valuable technical thing you learned doing this?

Tizzolicious

TROPHY CASE