Show HN: We are building an open-source IDE powered by AI
I find it surprising that many developers find using ai prompts easier than an actual programming language (not the first time I hear about it, but now it seems to be serious).When I tried to “talk” to gpts, it was always hard to formulate my requests. Basically, I want to code. To tell something structured, rigorous, not vague and blah-blah-ey. To check and understand every step*. Idk why I feel like this, maybe for me the next ten years will be rougher than planned. Maybe because I’m not a manager type at all? Trust issues? I wonder if someone else feels the same.Otoh I understand the appeal partially. It roots in the fact that our editors and “IDEs” suck at helping you to navigate the knowledge quickly. Some do it to a great extent, but it’s not universal. Maybe a new editor (plugin) will appear that will look at what you’re doing in code and show the contextual knowledge, relevant locations, article summaries, etc in another pane. Like a buddy who sits nearby with a beer, sees what you do and is seasoned enough to drop a comment or a story about what’s on your screen any time.Programming in a natural language and trusting the results I just can’t stand. Hell, in practice we often can’t negotiate or align ourselves in basic things even.* and I’m not from a slow category of developers