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submeta ◴[] No.44481854[source]
Very well written and a joy to read.

Yes, IDEs of the future will not look like those we have today. I too started with Cursor and similar VS Code enhanced IDEs. And ended up using Claude Code. And realised my terminal is more important for me now. So I migrated from iTerm to Ghostty (faster, lighter, more modern), Tmux and Tmuxinator, and NeoVim! Because I just cat/bat files and occasionally edit a file, if at all. Claude Code does the heavy lifting, I write specs and prompts, in NeoVim or Emacs. And I am loving my workflow.

I too use Claude Code for more then just generating code. Whenever I need to rewrite a config file (for zsh, neovim, ghostty, etc), I start Claude code and assign the task to do it. It will do the changes and even refactor my settings file in a few minute.

Lastly, I use it to ask questions about my codebase, refactor code, let it document my code, even make meaningful commits.

Pure awesomeness.

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indigodaddy ◴[] No.44482132[source]
Will CC automatically backup these personal configs you are talking about, say .zshrc, before making changes?
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1. AnotherGoodName ◴[] No.44482342[source]
It’s a feature of the ide but pretty much all of them have an option for ais to only change code via a merge and review process. It’s not the ai changing directly, it’s heres a diff; accept, change, discard process after the prompt. Past there the ides usually have a local history and yiu can also use git.