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Comment by owendarko

Why do we need a new IDE for "AI/vibe coding"?

The entire workflow for "AI coding agents" boils down to:

1. You write a prompt

2. The agent wraps it in a system prompt and sends it to the LLM

3. The LLM sends back a response

4. The agent performs specific actions based on that response (editing files, creating new ones, etc.)

I don't see why anyone would ditch their current (non-AI) IDE for Cursor just to get this functionality (especially if you're getting hit with a monthly subscription fee on top of it.)

P.S. I maintain a VS Code extension that does the 4 steps above as a baseline[1]

[1] https://github.com/Kilo-Org/kilocode

parent owendarko 1 year ago

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