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JambalayaJimbo • today at 2:50 PM • 0 replies • view on HN

IMO there’s a ton of room for innovation in the IDE space.

It looks like software dev is going the way of natural language as the final spec that humans see. Regardless of whether this is a good idea or not, it’s happening. My boss asked us not to write any code manually starting in Jan, and now has hinted that we should stop reviewing code too.

Natural language as spec obviously has a ton of limitations. And here an opinionated IDE that can define this sort of workflow better is primed to gain a lot of market share, devs clearly aren’t fussed about switching between IDEs right now.

I should be able to, for example, click on a plantuml diagram and see what the endpoint definitions are, See where the request schemas are.

If I have Agents.md files scattered across my codebase I would like my IDE to help me manage them