u/immersive-matthew

I have been using an open source, locally run LLM with OpenCode and Unity MCP which has been working great. I was originally using the community based MCP, but switched to the Unity version last week as it has a lot more tools. Today, my connection was refused and after looking into it, it looks like I need to buy the $10/month plan with 1,000 credit to be able to access MCP?  I do not need the credits as I have my own LLM but I see no other option to access Unity MCP?

Do I really need to pay this fee?  I thought the whole point of MCP was to be open?  Surely there is a free access option for those who do not need the credits?

I personally love AI and use it everyday extensively for coding to assist with my VR Theme Park app that I have been working on for the past 6 years now. I have written my own code for 4 of those years, then 2 years ago I did the AI copy and paste thing with AI chat apps, and then I moved to agentic coding with Claude Code, Codex, Coplay and now I am using OpenCode with local QWEN 3.6 27B and OpenRouter for the odd larger prompt with cloud AI.

Today I am reflecting on the big picture and asking myself, has AI made me more efficient at coding? Yes. Has my overall productivity increased? No...not really. Why? 3 reasons.

1. I spend way too much time learning this weeks/months latest tool, addon, strategy etc. to keep up as the pace of progress is high and it takes time to keep up...a lot of time.

2. AI causes issues that can sometimes take a lot of effort to overcome. Manageable but still a factor. It I is why I have an OpenRouter account as you learn over time some AIs struggle with this while another model may be better but struggle at that. This or that Eats up time.

3. The biggest one though is the enshitification of SDKs and my game engine which has meant I am spending way more time than ever on bugs/gaps that I did not cause but I have to fix. Thank goodness for AI as it has saved the day many times as no one developer can be an expert at every system, but 2026 has required me to be an expert in some pretty obscure areas just so I can survive as the enshitification is not getting better…only worse. It really has gotten back since about it mid 2025 and this year I am shocked as to how many issues I am having with what was solid systems in the past.

I can confidently say that I as reflect on my 6 years of development, 2 with AI, that AI has made coding faster, but everything else’s around that has gotten much more complicated. The net result for me personally is I am no faster at putting out new dark rides than I was pre AI. This is a big surprise as I thought I would have been much faster.

Maybe my experience is not indicative of the larger industry as I see companies like Cloud Flare saying it has made them 100x more efficient but given their outages I think this is pure Irrational Exuberance.

What is your experience if you have a direct pre and post AI productivity comparison.