Developers are attached to tools because tools encode trust - Stack Overflow

kept by eddie aug 03

Developers trust tools they master through muscle memory, but AI coding agents erode that trust with unpredictable outputs, shifting bottlenecks to review and demanding new processes and cultural alignment.

IntelliJ IDEA Goes LSP: Java and Kotlin Intelligence Comes to VS Code, Cursor, and Agentic Flows - The JetBrains Blog
JetBrains released a preview extension bringing IntelliJ IDEA's Java and Kotlin intelligence to VS Code and Cursor via LSP, with free 30-day trials.
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I have officially retired from Emacs
Chris Wellons retired from Emacs after 20 years, replacing its tools like Elfeed with native C++ GUI apps built using AI assistance.
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Read Less, Steer More : ezyang's blog
Prevent cognitive overload from reading AI-generated code by treating agents as fast typists rather than autonomous teammates, steering them actively.
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Writing code is cheap now - Agentic Engineering Patterns - Simon Willison's Weblog
Coding agents make writing code nearly free, forcing engineers to reorient habits from cost-saving to quality assurance like testing, documentation, and maintainability.
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The Productivity Mirage / frantic.im
The author learned that programming productivity stems from problem focus and intuition, not from elaborate editor setups, after observing a prolific engineer using minimal tools.
also on Vim, #software-engineering, #productivity, #developer-tools