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0 pointsDennisP12d ago0 comments

Even if you're using Claude, canceling the IDEs might be poor strategy. Steve Yegge points out in his book that the indexing and refactoring tools in IDEs are helpful to AIs as well. He mentions JetBrains in particular as working well with AI. Your company's IDE savings could be offset by higher token costs.

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DennisPOP12d ago

Perhaps it would help if I include the quote, so from Vibe Coding pages 165-166:

> [IDEs index] your code base with sophisticated proprietary analysis and then serve that index to any tool that needs it, typically via LSP, the Language Services Protocol. The indexing capabilities of IDEs will remain important in the vibe coding world as (human) IDE usage declines. Those indexes will help AIs find their way around your code, like they do for you.

> ...It will almost always be easier, cheaper, and more accurate for AI to make a refactoring using an IDE or large-scale refactoring tool (when it can) than for AI to attempt that same refactoring itself.

> Some IDEs, such as IntelliJ, now host an MCP server, which makes their capabilities accessible to coding agents.

schubart11d ago

Would you recommend that book?

DennisPOP11d ago

Yes, it's fantastic. Hard to imagine a better resource for getting started with vibe coding, on through developing large high-quality projects with it. It doesn't get into the details of particular tools much, so it should stay relevant for a while.

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