alt Hacker NewsIn everyone's day jobs where they used an IDE 5 years ago, or even a year ago, are those jobs abandoning the IDE?
I still use Visual Studio in my day job, where Claude's output while VERY helpful, requires my ownership of everything, meaning I am inspecting every single line it changes. If a change is bigger than I think it should, I kill it before I commit.
I know I don't HAVE to use an IDE for that, but if the change is small enough, I am faster than asking Claude to understand the subtext behind my personal context of the product, and the IDE is supremely helpful for making a quick change across a handful of files.
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I'm beginning to abandon the IDE (vscode in my case). I've always been very comfortable with (or at least not scared of) the command line so the Claude app with a terminal pane open is handling much of my IDE use cases. What I really need to do is get better at using find, grep, and other search tools from the terminal and then create a good .vimrc for editing and i'm set. heh what's old is new again!
> I am inspecting every single line it changes.
Honestly, when I'm looking at ClaudeCode's output 75% of time i'm doing it to learn and understand and not just check for correctness. I'm confident enough to admit I don't know everything and I've learned a lot from reading Claude's code.
IMO what's being called an 'Agent Development Environment' solves this issue for you. I like Orca but there's a few dozen of them.
Basically they give you a way to view the code the llm has generated/changed easily, annotate that code for the llm, and manage multiple agents and at once.
I have completely stopped using Jetbrains products since 6 months ago. Like all, not gonna even renew my subscription.
Heavy user of WebStorm and Datagrip since at least 2019.
I had personal subscriptions to WebStorm and GoLand and cancelled them not long after getting Windsurf. Just don't need the IDE abilities like I used to... Still use 'go to definition' but that's pretty much it.
Can't seem to beat vscode in over-ssh editing. Using IDEA it requires ~2GB transfer (local download plus ssh transfer) which is quite significant.
> ...inspecting...
I got used to sublime merge to context-switch editing vs reviewing, staging changes line-by-line
Junie's features are geared very much towards the more vibecoding side of things. Jetbrains even produced a vibecodin IDE.
I can go for a week or two without opening my IDE. Unheard of just a year ago.
Yes. Github draft PRs for giving inline feedback to agents, then going back to chat window with agents in Cursor, Claude, Codex, etc. to say 'review my comments and address them'.
> meaning I am inspecting every single line it changes.
I think this is changing fast. Pressure is increasing on devs for output, and most devs I know are no longer inspecting lines. I have devs in my business unit who claim to not have looked at code for months, except on certain rare occasions. I am not a developer and this week I've been given access to the repo to build my own apps and extensions. There's a "review" between commit and deploy, but there's no chance the Tech Lead can manually review everything, so that's getting done by AI too.
I know this horrifies a lot of devs, but these tools are shockingly good and we are not seeing an increase in bugs. In fact our automated detections (also AI assisted) are reducing the number of customer reported critical bugs.
I really think the days of inspecting every line are over.