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255 points rd07 | 1 comments | 20 Aug 24 07:15 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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cynicalpeace ◴[20 Aug 24 14:09 UTC] No.41300241[source]▶
Any IDE that isn't "AI first" is going to have a hard time from here on out. Cursor is beginning to eat the world much like VSCode did.

I'm sure there are some here on HN that will say "nah, I prefer the old fashioned way" but you will be decidedly in the minority very fast.

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from-nibly ◴[20 Aug 24 14:22 UTC] No.41300332[source]▶
I guess I'm an old grump then. I don't want air first development. It should be an extension. Why would an editor need to have air baked in when things like language support is an extension?
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1. cynicalpeace ◴[20 Aug 24 14:31 UTC] No.41300429[source]▶
It could be an extension, but its going to be so important that the IDE with the best AI support will be the most popular. Presumably that IDE won't relegate it to extension class citizenship. It will be most of the product.

Even now, I've built a ramen profitable side project mostly by sipping my coffee and approving Cursor's suggestions. 10x faster at least.

Way more productivity gains than even language support.