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… One odd thing I’ve noticed about the people who are very enthusiastic about the use of LLMs in programming is that they appear to be unaware of any _other_ programming tools. Like, this is a solved problem, more or less; code-aware editors have been a thing since the 90s (maybe before?)

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> code-aware editors have been a thing since the 90s

These will do things like highlight places where you're trying to call a method that isn't defined on the object, but they don't understand the intent of what you're trying to do. The latter is actually important in terms of being able to point you toward the correct solution.

true.. in the past few days I used my time off to work on my hobby video game - writing the game logic required me to consider problems that, are quite self-contained and domain specific, and probably globally unique (if not particularly complex).

I started out in Cursor, but I quickly realized Claude's erudite knowledge of AWS would not help me here, but what I needed was to refactor the code quickly and often, so that I'd finally find the perfect structure.

For that, IDE tools were much more appropriate than AI wizardry.

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