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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: 0.694s | source
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foz ◴[04 Feb 25 17:30 UTC] No.42935671[source]▶
After using Cursor and Copilot for some time, I long for a tool that works like a "real" collaborator. We share a spec and make comments, resolve them. We file issues and pull requests and approve them. We use tests and specs to lock down our decisions. We keep a backlog up to date, maintain our user docs, discuss what assumptions we have to validate still, and write down our decisions.

Like with any coworker - when ideas get real, get out of chat and start using our tools and process to get stuff done.

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1. ygouzerh ◴[04 Feb 25 18:04 UTC] No.42936213[source]▶
That's a great idea! Maybe when context window will be larger and tokens even cheaper?

I would like as well to add to it a peer-programming feature, with it making some comments on top of the shoulder when coding, a kind of smarter linter that will not lint one line, but that will have the entire project context.