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cmrdporcupineyesterday at 2:19 PM2 repliesview on HN

Yep. And in a way this has always been the story. It's why there's just so few companies making $$ in the pure devtooling space.

I have no idea what JetBrain's financials are like, but I doubt they're raking in huge $$ despite having very good tools & unfortunately their attempts to keep abreast of the AI wave have been middling.

Basically, I need Claude Code with a proper review phase built in. I need it to slow-the-fuck-down and work with me more closely instead of shooting mountains of text at me and making me jam on the escape key over and over (and shout WTF I didn't ask for that!) at least twice a day.

IHMO these are not professional SWE tools right now. I use them on hobby projects but struggle to integrate them into professional day jobs where I have to be responsible in a code review for the output they produced.

And, again, it's not the LLM that's at fault. It's the steering wheel driving it missing a basic non-yeet process flow.


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porkeryesterday at 6:54 PM

> Basically, I need Claude Code with a proper review phase built in. I need it to slow-the-fuck-down and work with me more closely instead of shooting mountains of text at me and making me jam on the escape key over and over (and shout WTF I didn't ask for that!) at least twice a day.

It sounds like you want Codex (for the second part)

hakanderyalyesterday at 3:05 PM

Try plan mode if you haven't already. Stay in plan mode until it is to your satisfaction. With Opus 4.5, when you approve the plan it'll implement the exact spec without getting off track 95% of the time.

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