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I’m all in on AI assisted development but this is ridiculous.
There’s so many self evident reasons to need an IDE as a developer.
Presumably the unidentified author is selling something that benefits from such a stance.
Only occasionally review with an editor.
CC is great at many things but one area it is still not great at is making GUI interactions look and work properly. Literally likely because it can neither see the GUI (without manual screenshot intervention) nor can it see it change over time. So if for example a progress indication is not working correctly, it will totally miss stuff like that.
For example, I was recently trying to get an agent to debug something which was difficult to debug because it ran in an exotic context, where debuggers and logging and printf couldn't easily reach. The agent kept coming up with more and more elaborate and smart-sounding theories and debugging strategies, but nothing worked. I stupidly kept going with this for like 20 minutes, until finally I just went into an IDE, did a simple "comment bisection" where I commented stuff out until I found the line that was breaking, and found and fixed the problem in five minutes. So I solved it by typing code. The code I typed: "//" (in about six places). I could probably have gotten the agent to do the same thing but would have actually literally had to type more to explain to the agent what I wanted. In fact it took me longer to write this comment describing what I did here than it did to just do it.
Orchestration is a form of creating. I've lead teams of programmers; while it is different than orchestrating AI, programmers typically require less hand-holding, it is not so different in how it is a form of delegating effort to achieve your creative goals.
> The agents aren't the problem. Your brain is.
If anything, my worry is that relying too heavily on agents will cause my knowledge to be forgotten and my skills to atrophy. I don't particularly want to stop programming so much as it is that I want to develop software as part of a team. That team now includes some AI agents, as well as humans.
The need to write code isn't going anywhere. I expect that in the very long term it will retain value, as developing expert level programming ability will be a difficult challenge when so much can be accomplished with little to no such ability.
ADE was the "Advanced Development Environment" that you could get in the 80s for the Wang VS System. ADE started suffering from some minor bitrot, so on the VS I wrote my own I called DE, Development Environment.
There was a decent chance DE would have been bundled with Wangs VS on AIX Environment that was being built in R&D, but the company went Chapter 11 and that project was cancelled :(
heckelson•1h ago
namanyayg•1h ago
I am okay with using AI or software to proofread and improve a piece of writing but this one is clearly fully written by AI, as is evident with the short sentences and the awkward writing style -- no human actually writes or talks like that.
operatingthetan•1h ago
maipen•1h ago
teleforce•1h ago
I think it will reach to the point of "dogfooding".
Those who's not crafting their own comments will be treated as those who's not using their written software.
s-xyz•1h ago
gnabgib•1h ago
> This article was written with the help of AI
operatingthetan•1h ago
I realized recently that AI agents are so good that we don't need to read code anymore. I told my team to uninstall all their IDEs as an experiment. A few weeks later they agreed with me. Lanes is a tool that enables this new coding paradigm. I'd love it if you checked it out.
Easy.
bedroom_jabroni•1h ago