The IDE Is Dead. Long Live the ADE

heckelson

I feel like I'm starting to have an allergic reaction to the AI writing style. I can no longer unsee it, albeit I can't exactly pinpoint what about the text triggers this guttal reaction.

RobRivera

Alexa, Play despacito

andrewstuart

>> I recently told all my engineers to delete their IDEs. PyCharm, VS Code, Cursor. All of them. 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.

pmarreck

I do all my dev in CC now. 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.

dleslie

> You're spending more time orchestrating than creating. 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.

jmclnx

ADE ? This is when I know we are running out of acronyms :) 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 :(

jcuenod

Wait, I thought it was the 2nd of April today?