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Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools

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858 points cryptophreak | 1 comments | 04 Feb 25 16:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source
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m3kw9 ◴[04 Feb 25 16:22 UTC] No.42934441[source]▶
There is a black box effect between when you press enter and it starts updating code in multiple places. Like wtf just happened, I have to find these changes, which code broke dependencies. It should be more step wise visually
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1. josefrichter ◴[04 Feb 25 16:40 UTC] No.42934741[source]▶
In some editors, like Windsurf, you will get git-like diff and you have to approve each change (or accept all in bulk, of course).