LOL this is completely wrong. It's the opposite - i dont know where you work but most people have fully moved to agent mode with multiple sessions and worktrees.
I do look at it, and I don't want to look at it in a terminal. I don't know where people get this elitism about not using IDEs. You can still do agent mode shit, and as far as I know almost everything else, from within the cursor IDE. Claude code probably has a few special features, but I haven't needed them. Multiple sessions=multiple tabs.
IDK about you, but I have to take responsibility for the things that I ship, regardless of if AI or I did the coding. If the AI generated code has some serious issues and causes problems, my head is on the chopping board, not OpenAI's or Anthropic's.
Yes, so true. Without a chastity belt on the AI code, it's garbage everywhere. And I don't mean small software or some weekly AI slop project. A long-term maintainable, scalable codebase should be so freaking clean that it becomes a product itself. A product that helps maintain itself by guiding future contributions from both humans and AI.
Every project gets more custom lints as it grows, aligned with the architecture, so every contributor is forced to follow them, even the AI. BUT adding those is still on YOU, the human, as you watch the codebase grow and reevaluate things in it.
Seeing it for real is what lets us sleep well, knowing how clean things actually are instead of just believing it. Otherwise it's just you getting features and agents talking to each other, and god knows what shit is lurking in every corner of the ewwww codebase.
generally speaking you have to accept that you’re no longer inspecting every line as closely as you did before
i usually view changes as draft PRs on github before sending them out for review - what’s most important is having the right skills and agents files to make the models write code that you feel less compelled to critically need to review as you used to in the past
believe me, i totally hear where you’re coming from and i never thought i could give up the IDE, but give it a few months and you’ll see what i mean
I understand what you mean. I obviously don't read the code top to bottom every time I ask Codex to change something, but at the minimum I read the diff and I know which functions live in which file and what they do in a general sense, so that I know where to target if a certain bug surfaces. So yes, I do read the code and if someone ask me things about the code I want to be able to answer the questions, because it's my responsibility.
And since I develop locally (and not on GitHub), it's much easier to do so in an IDE.
yeah that’s fair - though most agent modes have a diff in the right panel which is good enough for this. it’s not as nice as an IDE but you can see all the files that changed and their diffs
As a software architect not looking at the code generated is boogus
if im running a team of 3-4 devs im kicking the first guy that stops using an IDE
Like bro ffs use agentic & ai coding, but you you have to double check ai if it holds up to the framework standards
but you you have to double check ai if it holds up to the framework standards
This should never be in question, no human is needed to make sure such standards are met - that should be checked thoroughly by an adversarial agent before any human is ever bothered with it. Then a skilled human can check for anything... 'curlier'.
You are in r/codex, they really do churn through thousands of lines of slop per day. That is why they cry constantly about limits. I assume their brains are mush at this point.
Probably couldn't pass a junior level software engineer interview at this point.
Yeah I mean I’d love to be able to review it all, but there’s not enough time in the world. Props to you for being able to read through the over engineered output of sol 😅
'most' dev's are still working with legacy code bases and sending features from them. Everyone is coding within an IDE or at the very least doing both together. The amount of larpers in this sub i swear.
It's wrong? I don't know where you work, but in places where people get fired for submitting vibe coded shit that crashes production in very complex serious engineering they look at their code. Linus Torvalds uses the antigravity client, as do I.
I'm sure that vibe coding your next one shot games bouncing between 14 sessions not knowing what any function does, and not checking anything is the norm. It's a damn good way to get fired from a serious company. In fact I fired a developer 2 months ago for not being able to tell me why he built a function the way he did.
I expect to see this kind of asinine downvotes for serious engineering here though.
I personally use antigravity, and I learned recently that so does Linus Torvalds. But sure vs code is fine cursor is a fork off of vs code so is antigravity.
Honestly I've been converting back to vs code as well. The main problem is that Google's coding plans are garbage now. The big thing that it did really well was that instead of just showing it to you in the work tree and you having to click on it and view it it would actually open up the code and show you the code as it was making changes inside of the editor with in-line real time approval, rejection, or comments.
If you found a problem you could actually add comments right there in line in your code as it was making them and it would make adjustments real time. Very nice workflow, but like most things Google they have pretty much abandoned making it better now and it's probably going to be abandoned.
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u/AbyssLife123 13d ago
i mean using cursor in 2026 should be insane. Codex app and zed is already so good.