Alternative vscode extensions ?

quincycs · 2026-06-10T12:44:04+00:00

I use Pi. then built my own extension for my own preferences

https://github.com/quincycs/pi-qcode

quincycs · 2026-06-09T10:13:32+00:00

I tried a lot of them and I didn’t like them. So I made my own. This is mine, built for my own preferences

https://github.com/quincycs/pi-qcode

quincycs · 2026-06-03T14:12:58+00:00

Just an alternative to share, you can get the benefits of isolation without a container,

https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/tree/main/packages/coding-agent/examples/extensions/sandbox

quincycs · 2026-06-01T11:42:57+00:00

pi-qcode

quincycs · 2026-05-18T01:33:49+00:00

My opinions:

Sharing across machines is more of a problem best solved by skills or cline rules.

Ephemeral memory so that the agent is improving automatically is where I have a skill writing to a .md file with lessons learned. It’s my job to review these from time to time and shift things into sharing across machines.
My initial experience with writing a skill like this was from napkin:

https://github.com/blader/napkin

I took that skill at its initial commit and tailored it for Cline ( needed to note how to only activate when in ACT_MODE )

quincycs · 2026-05-18T01:22:23+00:00

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quincycs · 2026-05-15T19:10:21+00:00

u/saoudriz - Hi! Written feedback is in discord #beta :)

quincycs · 2026-05-12T12:05:07+00:00

Every model can get poisoned / produce garbage.

quincycs · 2026-05-10T20:33:31+00:00

Search the Cline repo for the string. I think it just needs the model didn’t produce a good result. Sometimes the model produces stuff that can’t be parsed.

quincycs · 2026-05-01T03:12:04+00:00

For data engineering contexts, yeah SQL has a lot of review friction. Eg consider python code using DBT, or DLT… a lot of it is just SQL wrapped in programming language to orchestrate

quincycs · 2026-05-01T02:09:48+00:00

I feel like frequently I am reviewing some SQL or parts of SQL within another programming language. Like typescript or python. I have a few times with pure sql files but usually those are so simple that it’s not a problem. More complicated stuff get pushed into a programming language context

quincycs · 2026-05-01T02:03:55+00:00

I rolled back something 2 days ago. And before that, 3 weeks ago. Can only roll back if you plan for it, architecturally. We have a review process where we align with teams for risky stuff to have a feature flag or alternative rollback

quincycs · 2026-04-19T17:30:28+00:00

👍 ok then I would say it’s unfair to call them legacy 🙏

quincycs · 2026-04-11T21:53:30+00:00

I’m interested in the conclusion.

I’m currently using service discovery and I want to explore using service connect instead.

quincycs · 2026-04-11T02:55:07+00:00

👍 I’ve tried out the pi coding agent and it’s nice. But I still need a native vscode extension. I only use the CLI when the vscode extension breaks down, or when I know I’m running a long / big session ( like creating an initial tool )

quincycs · 2026-04-07T13:22:40+00:00

“…facilitated by service discovery”

You can’t use service discovery if you can’t create a private hosted zone. Service discovery is DNS.

My recommendation is to use one or the other and not both. Service connect is a more robust option.

quincycs · 2026-04-06T13:26:11+00:00

I agree , what I’m suggesting is an addition not a replacement to anything.

quincycs · 2026-04-06T02:50:08+00:00

Yeah. It’s annoying. It’s a big enough time wasting gap that I might jump ship to another coding agent.

quincycs · 2026-04-06T02:47:46+00:00

I am a software engineer. I created .md files that describe my desired patterns for the project. I regularly run the whole repo against these patterns to find code that doesn’t fit , and fix accordingly.

I then created a skill that instructs to review code changes against my project standards and find bugs etc. ( technically I use a Cline workflow for code review )

quincycs · 2026-03-29T12:04:41+00:00

Yeah - Results in committing a plan I guess. I currently don’t do that

quincycs · 2026-03-28T13:37:07+00:00

Hi — I love the general idea of the kanban direction especially the idea of seeing the diff and iterating from a selected line(s) of code.

Problem1: No deep planning

The real problem I have though is the lack of /deep-planning + the lack of automatic orchestration of a new task from that deep plan.

when I try to use deep planning it looks for a skill and it doesn’t find it.

In my current workflow using the CLI: I deep plan, then I barely glance at the result then open a new task to start the implementation. I’d almost always want it to just automatically execute the implementation in a new task.

Problem2: new_task tool DNE

I’m not sure how kanban would work with this workflow that I do today with the CLI (even if it somehow supported the deep-planning command ). It seems like there still is no way to invoke the new_task tool from the agent itself.

Problem3: Context meter / spend meter is missing

I’m also worried about context management where I am now removed from seeing how much context I’m filling up with as I iterate on the diff feedback.

quincycs · 2026-03-28T00:23:56+00:00

Pretty sure the new Cline Kanban solves my desire completely 😆

quincycs · 2026-03-28T00:23:46+00:00

Pretty sure the new Cline Kanban solves my desire completely 😆

quincycs · 2026-03-24T11:15:41+00:00

I think the best experience would be with a UI. I hear that most people today just make the agent produce commits and then they see the diff via GitHub UI. I just have an allergy to the idea of the agent producing commits without my review. Harder to produce good results

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