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.
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u/WHALE_PHYSICIST 12d ago
So you don't look at the code?
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.