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Posts by Nick Plekhanov

🚀 Just shipped Tidy Space extension for VS Code!
Tired of your laptop screen looking like a cluttered desktop? This extension keeps only ONE sidebar open at a time. No more wrestling with overlapping panels eating your precious screen real estate: marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa...

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Honestly baffled by people throwing MCP servers at everything. Most are security risks and bog down model performance with tool overload. CLI tools usually work better for tasks, since today's agents handle them just fine. Save MCP for when agents genuinely struggle with access, not as a cure-all.

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The Rhythm of Software in the LLM Era These are my thoughts on working with AI as a coding partner, and how it’s quietly changing the way we build software. I've been coding for over a decade and…

After years away from blogging, I finally wrote something new. It’s my reflection on how AI and LLMs are reshaping developer culture. I touch on the hype, the reality, and how these tools have found a place in my daily workflow.
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Notelets - Visual Studio Marketplace Extension for Visual Studio Code - Add sticky notes to any file in your workspace

If you like keeping quick notes right next to the code you’re working on — like I do — this VS Code extension will come in handy: marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa...

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Reveal on GitHub - Visual Studio Marketplace Extension for Visual Studio Code - Open the current project or file on GitHub

I built a tiny Visual Studio Code and Cursor extension to open files and projects on GitHub: marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa...

Perhaps it might be useful for your workflow as well.

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