LSPs should expose their api through shell commands - then integrating it with any LLM would be trivial. And it would also be very useful for humans.

The typescript-lsp (and others?) is missing a critical part of LSPs whcih is the diagnostics for real-time errors and warnings. So you still need to run a linter, tsc, etc. to generate those sadly.

I've been a JetBrains suscriber for a while, because at the time I saw that I preferred the UI experience over Jetbrains to VSCode. The IDE is well built, they have a better product/user experience team driving and coordinating those changes.

I cannot stand VSCode - even if I configure it to my liking I am unable to make it look or feel the way that makes me feel at home.

I cancelled my subscription a week ago. Yes I still dislike VSCode. But the same product Jetbrains has honed has struggled to integrate with AI agents as well.

I've played with some combination of picking vim/emacs with Claude CLI. I find navigating code a little bit slower since I have trouble building the muscle memory. I've always been big at using my mouse to jump around the file tree.

Configuring LSPs for these text editors and getting things to "just work" takes a little bit more time. I don't know what special sauce is in IntelliJ but for the supported languages, but it took a while for me to be okay with LSPs compared to IntelliJ.

But LLMs and Agents remove a need for a lot of the the advanced IDE features and I've found it better to return back to just treating everything like a text buffer again and using specialized tools to fill in the gaps that were missing with the loss of IntelliJ

If you want to explore the ecosystem of Claude Code plugins, see https://claude-plugins.dev/

With a fair disclaimer, that it is very easy to vibe-code a skill oneself, with both pros (you can create one just for you!) and cons (if you look online, these are of any quality, quite a few with some hard-coded versions or practices).

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It’s breathtaking how fast Anthropic / Claude Code team ships.

They are definitely coding in a LLM maximalist way, in a good way.

Amazing how long this took. Serena has been doing a not bad job of helping solve this issue. But this has been an obvious built in for agents for some time now. https://github.com/oraios/serena

I was hoping LSP support would be implemented. I know there are existing MCP servers that can do something kind of similar, but I doubt the agent would be smart enough to consistently utilize the LSP MCP. Here's hoping for less greps.

Claude code has some hard coded system prompting that materially opposes my working preferences. I work on things that need full context/ at least 50+ percent usage ish reasoning to do stuff correctly. Happily ive a bunch of stuff that helps persist reasoning and opus was very helpful, and hilariously handling the patching as if it was a static linked binary!.

The difference for me was night and day!! A lot of the hard wired prompts on the app are only sane for single shot crud work. Habits and behaviors that would make me loath working with a person doing the same.

The cadence of the Claude Code team is pretty impressive. I count 57 releases since 2.0 (which was less than 3 months ago), and most of these had significant new features.