I tried Google Jules and Claude Code on a relatively large project and had them refactor some aspects that touched many API surfaces. Here are my opinions on them.

I’ve been using vscode like 5 years now, that’s longer than I have been doing any meaningful coding. All this time I had my ups and down with it, but anytime I tried to move away from it (mainly vim/vim-motion) I had to move back to it because I had no other choice (I still try sometime nevertheless and might be successes someday). Regardless of my or any other’s opinion on it, it’s very versatile and very important according to some developers (mostly web-dev which are mostly some of the worst devs 🤣).