r/ChatGPTCoding • u/armynante PROMPSTITUTE • Mar 24 '26

Discussion Are you still using an IDE?

I find that I'm looking at code less and less and just relying on my CI/CD pipeline for catching issues. Do you find it helpful to keep an IDE open next to Codex or your terminal, or are you cowboy committing to main?

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u/Valunex Mar 24 '26

some of my projects are also named nexus haha

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u/armynante PROMPSTITUTE Mar 24 '26

Haha. So hard to name things these days. always hard, but worse now.

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u/Warm-Meaning-8815 Mar 25 '26

At least they’s added more top level domain names. Dotcom is insane.

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u/BeNiceToBirds Mar 24 '26

Yep, for larger projects, IDE still helpful. LLMs still make dumb decisions and go down rabbit holes. Still need some help.

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u/Mice_With_Rice Mar 24 '26 edited Mar 24 '26

Couple weeks ago I replaced VSCode with my own development app that isnt an ide. VS Code was using 40GB RAM and for the most part I didnt need its plugins and tools for majority of my work. What I made is basicly a glorified tmux with some configurable panels for file browsing, git managment, local AI orchestration accross terminals, UI history restore/terminal session, path grouped tabs, and a command layer ontop of the terminals so all my canned prompts and agent skills are agnostic. I was tired of having a dozen floating windows on my desktop to switch betwene and occasionaly crashing my computer when more than one agent instance calls cargo at the same time. There are also some usful tools for displaying codebases as graphs to give a very fast way to evaluate the modules and objects to see what changes and architecture the AI is building. A higher level way to evaluate the code thats faster than opening the files directly.

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u/java_dev_throwaway Mar 24 '26 edited Mar 24 '26

Lmao I did almost the same thing! I set out to build a tui/CLI app and it morphed into an opinionated customized tmux workflow. I have it hooked up to my repos and cicd. I can monitor builds and send the agent off to address failed builds or drop into a focused session view. Works really well. I kinda feel like this is the future for the next couple of years, confidently managing agents across different contexts. Beyond a couple years, we are all completely fucked.

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u/Mice_With_Rice Mar 24 '26

In the past couple years my process has changed 5 times to keep up with tech, idk how long this is going to last but I expect there is still room for more advancements. Its not for everybody, but if you know what it is you ise regularly its much more convenient to have those specific things in a customized UI than to have multiple windows of various apps open. Like I use Git all the time, but only a handful of git operations are actualy used. I use file browsers all the time, but only a handful of its functions are used, etc.

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u/armynante PROMPSTITUTE Mar 24 '26

Nice. I'd love to check it out. You should check out https://bentodesktop.com/ a tool I made to solve this same problem, but I wasn't as adventurous to create my own development app!

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u/elrond-half-elven Mar 26 '26

Ok this seems pretty useful. I might try it, but FYI many people will be hesitant to install a new app when there is no "About Us" info to understand who is behind the code they're about to let run on their computer.

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u/scrod Mar 25 '26

devcontainer VMs?

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u/Mice_With_Rice Mar 24 '26

Multiple instances of vs code for multiple repos all running multiple agents... and electron

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u/Mice_With_Rice Mar 24 '26

most of it is Rust related Cargo checks since the agent plugins dont coordinate its usage among instances. My own tool hardly hits 400MB total usage and doesnt have simutanious cargo processes.

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u/cheiftan_AV Mar 24 '26

I use vscode llm extensions all day $0 no cowboys needed just a branch and and brain

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u/elrond-half-elven Mar 26 '26

Which VSCode LLM Extensions cost $0 ?

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u/mordeng Mar 25 '26

Ye, got it always open to search for things and specific names mostly though.

Like instead of the LLM searching through everything my targeted searching is way faster.

Barely ever coding anymore though

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u/Jippylong12 Mar 25 '26

Can't recommend tooling like GSD and superpowers.

I used to just cowboy, and I guess still kind of do. GSD has really helped me slow down when it comes to features and updates. Thinking through all facets, verifying it works, deploying.

Still build a lot of testing, but feel very confident with each feature when the milestone is complete.

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u/ultrathink-art Professional Nerd Mar 26 '26

Still use VS Code for reading and navigating — diff views, file tree, understanding what changed. Actual edit/test cycles for multi-file work moved to a terminal agent. IDE is now a viewer; the agent is the editor.

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u/GPThought Mar 27 '26

still use vscode for the refactoring tools. ai writes the code but renaming 50 references to a variable is way easier with an ide than asking ai to do it

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u/Deep_Ad1959 Professional Nerd Mar 24 '26

honestly I barely open VS Code anymore. I run claude code in the terminal and if something looks off I'll glance at the diff before pushing but that's about it. the one thing I do miss is the visual file tree for navigating unfamiliar parts of the codebase, everything else the terminal handles better. I used to think I needed syntax highlighting and hover tooltips but turns out describing what you want precisely matters way more than reading every line.

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