Isn’t Gemini shit for coding?
I use Gemini a lot for consulting about various stuff in Unreal. So far I had far the most luck with it compared to ChatGPT or Claude. So I figured I would go with it using MCP as well. I have spent half a day setting it up (I have never used any of its advanced aspects like CLI and AI studio).
In the end it technically worked, so I was able to give it a simple prompt (spawn sky and sun). But in practicality it seems to be completely unusable. I wanted it to modify a Blueprint class but crashes with the "429 TooManyRequests" error. I'm on the first paid tier, so it's not the super low token limit of the free tier.
Also asking regular Gemini about it, it says that it can't actually modify Blueprints. Which is strange, I have seen many people online claiming they have good success making Codex/Claude creating Blueprint for them.
Is there anyone else who had experience with Gemini and MCP?
Isn’t Gemini shit for coding?
I’ve had success with Claude Code. But you need to run it with a local engine build. Claude can digest the source code, and use it as the basis for figuring out what to do. If you’re just using the web chatbot, that can’t happen, and it’s fairly useless. The public UE info on the net is extremely limitted, and often wrong. I haven’t tried generating BPs, but I have used it to tweak things in materials. Worked pretty well. But here’s the thing (which you’ll probably ignore): AI only works as an _assistant_. You need to know the subject matter very, very well before it’s useful. It’s not capable of discerning “possible” vs. “impossible.” It will try to solve unsolvable problems. How do I know which problems are unsolvable? I’m a pro game dev. I’ve solved similar problems before. Most of the time, I can see when Claude is proposing an unworkable method of solving a problem. And I hand-review *evey* thing it does before including it in the project. And I never use it for anything creative, because it has no soul and can’t create. AI is extremely useful, but it’s overhyped. Eventually, it’ll settle down and be used only where it makes sense. But right now, the AI companies are encouraging its use for *everything*, because it earns them cash.
But here’s the thing (which you’ll probably ignore): AI only works as an assistant. You need to know the subject matter very, very well before it’s useful. It’s not capable of discerning “possible” vs. “impossible.” It will try to solve unsolvable problems.
It's also an autocomplete machine, which means it is extremely sensitive to the inputs. If you can phrase questions with nuance, confidence and technical expertise, you will get massively better results than if you ask beginner-level questions. It's a force multiplier on your own expertise.
Which is pretty unintuitive, because humans don't work this way! A doctor doesn't become measurably stupider if a medical question is asked by a layperson versus a peer. I think this is one of the most important subtleties to understand when working with LLMs.
Currently i let GPT 5.6 rewrite blueprint Plugins to C++ with GAS and proper replication and that works wonders with UECP Mcp, but it's slow. Takes like 3 weeks to port it and extend it as I want it but then I will have a good basis.
Gemini sucks bro. Might as well use the Chinese models.
Don't use Gemini, it'll more likely fuck up your project then say it did everything you asked perfectly