If the coding assistant can't run ITERATIVE CRUD on ALL of your code, it's not a True AI Coding Assistant (TACA)
Must work on existing codebasesMust have a file context mechanismMust be iteratively controllable
- CrewAI (agentic building block - not TACA)
- Autogen (agentic building block - not TACA)
- GPT Engineer (rapid prototyping - not TACA)
- ChatDEV (rapid prototyping - not TACA)
- Cursor (Legitimate TACA)
- AIDER (Legitimate TACA)
- Aider
- Cursor
- File Management
- Accuracy
- Speed
- Security
- Skill Atrophy 💰💰💰💰💰
- File Management
- Explicit manual add/remove file context
- Wait for tools to improve
- Look for niche solutions that include open file context
- Accuracy
- PRACTICE
- The prompt is the new fundamental unit of programming
- Wait for tools to improve
- Speed
- Experiment and see if you REALLY need gpt-4-turbo or if gpt-3 is enough
- Wait for tools to improve
- Security
- Bite the bullet and use a cloud solution
- Use a local-only solution (in the future)
- Waiting for great local LLMs to catch up
- Skill Atrophy
- Great technology always destroys skill, jobs, and entire industries
- Pay close attention to the results of your prompts to slow skill decay
- Don't focus on this too much, focus on the bigger picture: The Prompt
- Flow with the AI, don't fight it
- Whoever cracks this puzzle first is going to catapult into the future of engineering.
- The world is built on code, and whoever can build the best code the fastest will win in the long run.
- If you're faster, you can build more, once you finish your work you can work more or relax more.
- There is a massive first movers advantage in the software industry. Learning and mastering AI Coding Assistants ASAP gives you a monumental edge.
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