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I don't use IDEs to begin with. I use a text editor, since I am a UNIX man. So, I don't even have a reason to look at the "AI" flavor of an IDE. The closest thi
by cwegener 1y ago
I don't use IDEs to begin with. I use a text editor, since I am a UNIX man.
So, I don't even have a reason to look at the "AI" flavor of an IDE.
The closest thing to an AI IDE that I have tried out were tools like AIDER and Jack's "goose" agent.
Neither of those specialized tools has been satisfactory. They all performed worse than just the LLM IMO.
I am sticking to crafting my own context that I supply to the LLM.
Tools like Simon W's `llm` tool help A LOT to be more efficient at using LLMs in a daily setting.
- bilekas 1y agoI didn't know Unix users were not able to use IDEs. The more you know /s Edit : Sarcastic
- fho 1y agoNot true and if only then by choice. VSCode/Cursor run natively under Linux.
- rcarmo 1y agoI use VS Code on Fedora Silverblue.
- bilekas 1y agoIt obviously wasn't obvious enough but I was being sarcastic. My fault anyway, pre coffee.
- fho 1y agoFair enough... Honestly, I wasn't using Cursor for a long time because I thought that, as a MS project, it wouldn't be available on Linux.
- fmxsh 1y agoI don't know about Unix users, but perhaps, instead, it is they are able to not use IDEs.
- bilekas 1y agoI like to laugh at myself a lot but this made me really giggle. Well phrased!
- k4rli 1y agoI'm mostly on the same page, but jumping into a new project with a not-so-familiar language has been made much less painful with Cursor. Regular anthropic chats spew nonsense most of the time and are disappointing, but Cursor really seems to be useful. Of course it also gets stuff wrong and everything needs to be properly validated, but it's a nice tool to try out.