Meanwhile you can’t open a project’s git worktree without requiring a full and complete reindex - a complete non-starter in larger monorepos. Their shared index offering is a complete joke, and generally it just feels like the wheels are coming off their product somewhat.
It regrettably makes sense: Nowadays a lot of people are instead asking an LLM chatbot to "collaborate." It may be inferior to a coworker--perhaps dangerously subtly so--but you can invoke it at any time which is convenient.
An LLM in that mix would be like an automated version of That One Guy who isn't really engaged or curious but keeps bringing up unhelpful stuff to justify their "work" during the meeting.
This was more than a year ago, so they hopefully had fixed it by now, but we gave up after a few sessions.
It's a git based system where you use a common screen sharing between participants and since It's git based, everyone can use it's IDE.
It's based on the mob programming technique coined by Woody Zuill so no multiple people editing at the same time and more discutions
Joking aside, maybe collaborative coding with AI will save coding? You're still prompting but immersed in the code and inline annotations, rather than a blindfolded chat. I know copilot did it before but we're still waiting to see the end shape of AI coding and maybe someone comes up with a new take?
