I'll just have to guess the reimagined IDE is not longer very text-centric given that without proprietary JavaScript the page is just a green background.
Not yet, but I'd expect we'll eventually get there. Code always remains the source of truth and thus will have its place in every IDE for finer control, but I imagine shifting our primary interaction with code from the editor panel to an agent controller can become a powerful models once these agents become very good. A neat way to think about this is code reviews.
When I give a task to another developer on the team, they go out to understand the task, work on it, write tests, run everything and put it up for review (which is then also auto-evaluated by CI first). In this scenario, as a reviewer, we already don't have an absolute need to read every line of code as long as high level design/project principles are followed and all scenarios are covered in tests that are passing.
AI agents can become this other developer picking up and completing end-to-end tasks, but rather than taking hours/days, they take a few seconds/minutes at best — so review comments can actually be shared and incorporated quicker within the IDE itself.
ghostwriternr|2 years ago
When I give a task to another developer on the team, they go out to understand the task, work on it, write tests, run everything and put it up for review (which is then also auto-evaluated by CI first). In this scenario, as a reviewer, we already don't have an absolute need to read every line of code as long as high level design/project principles are followed and all scenarios are covered in tests that are passing.
AI agents can become this other developer picking up and completing end-to-end tasks, but rather than taking hours/days, they take a few seconds/minutes at best — so review comments can actually be shared and incorporated quicker within the IDE itself.
Given_47|2 years ago