> Such a weird take for both because there does seem to be a sweet middle ground. Having been burned by Copilot in the past I started researching and using alt

> Such a weird take for both because there does seem to be a sweet middle ground. Having been burned by Copilot in the past I started researching and using alternatives. Continue was nice for a while because it allowed using Claude and at that time was better at feeding the LLM good context from your codebase. I started using Cursor + Claude 3.7 not too long ago and, while a definite upgrade from Copilot, I still saw glaring issues with what it generated. Writing project rules has helped immensely with this and has crystallized what I believe the SOTA of LLM-assisted development to be for the foreseeable future (i.e. if the assumptions about the limitations of current LLM architectures hold true). To your point, I think > a sweet middle ground will end up involving developers bootstrapping LLM-read rules according to project architecture and specifications while they build out the foundation and initial features. This will then allow devs to crank out bounded contexts while they spend the long tail stitching them together as they focus on the problem domain. "Vibe coding" as practiced by influencers is nothing more than a quicker, sexier version of the StackOverflow copy/paste programmer archetype that's been around for the last 20 years. Similarly, "agentic" platforms that allow an LLM to regurgitate whatever it wants while it throws spaghetti at a terminal to debug are just automatic versions of developers that paste entire stack traces into Google. Developers on the opposite end of the spectrum who care enough to review the LLM's work and, more importantly, refine it as they go will be rewarded handsomely. Either way it's safe to say that Microsoft has gotten a good kick in the pants over the last year or so as the tooling in this space has improved. I'm pretty optimistic about the future after having seen such large dividends from my efforts to go beyond just tabbing and Cmd+I'ing my way through LLM assistance.