As long as your favorite IDE is VSCode?
it's a good start. VSCode is most popular. Largest impact. More potential users. More likely to find a customer base.
Readit Newsrikatee commented on Coding agent in the IDE: Generate task plan and get plan-aware code completion twitter.com/itamar_mar/st... · Posted by u/itamarcode
Hey HN, CodiumAI co-founder here.
We’ve come up with a bit of a different concept for what a coding agent should be. We believe it should work in tandem with a developer inside the IDE. Over time as the tech improves, it will get more and more autonomy.
We’ve been using our coding agent internally and see a 5-10x boost on some tasks.
The agent is available now to Codiumate VS Code users. We want to hear what kind of tasks it works well on and improve it over time to expand the task set. Would love to get feedback.
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Codium.c...
> internally and see a 5-10x boost on some tasks.
That's my experience with co-pilots too:
- Generating tests
- Generating functions consistent with prevailing style of similar functionality in the existing codebase. The greater the consistency, the more helpful the AI is at generating.
- Telling me why my code is crap by adding a `# todo: ` above some code and seeing what the AI suggests should be changed :)
What other tasks do you see as good target for 5-10x boosts?
I like this. I think AI agents are the future of software development.
AI will not replace devs. Devs that use AI will replace devs that do not use AI.
The most effective devs will be those employing a fleet of AI agents, acting as the glue and guiding hand for what the agents should produce.
This helps us get to that future, so I think this has legs.
I use VS code. I will try this out.
rikatee commented on We fixed f-string typos in popular Python repos highertier.com/we-fixed-f... · Posted by u/rikatee
This was posted on Reddit earlier this week with similar negative responses:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/ubkvrd/10_of_the_66...
FWIW, HN is much more positive (while also raising valid points that will be taken into account going forward)
rikatee commented on We fixed f-string typos in popular Python repos highertier.com/we-fixed-f... · Posted by u/rikatee
You can also use flake8 to find this, and even more, errors in Python code.
flake8 does not currently support this check, as they are concerned about the false positives from "what if the string it later used in .format(...)"
However, Code Review Doctor is more of a "this MIGHT be a problem. have you considered..." rather than "it wrong"
rikatee commented on We fixed f-string typos in popular Python repos highertier.com/we-fixed-f... · Posted by u/rikatee
I find it ironic that the article points out that relying on error from humans to find errors is something of a hit or miss proposition and suggests that automating error finding is an appropriate course instead of making it less likely to make the error in the first place.
For example, I wonder how many errors would have been found if the definition of a format string was the default? That is, how many times would people have written something like "hello {previously-defined-variable}" and not meant to substitute the value of that previously defined variable at runtime?
what's also ironic is I left an easter egg in the code sample for how we downloaded the list of repositories and no one has noticed it yet.
rikatee commented on We fixed f-string typos in popular Python repos highertier.com/we-fixed-f... · Posted by u/rikatee
We've blocked the bot after their script malfunctioned and they opened a second issue with exactly the same text (https://github.com/mitmproxy/mitmproxy/issues/5286).
klyrs was right about the reply from me (a dev behdind Code Review Doctor) being dismissive in the issue. I apologise for that.
FWIW my reaction was classic "expectations not meeting reality": weeks of work to do (what I thought) was a mutually beneficial helpful thing. I was naively not expecting non-positive responses and was ill prepared when you raised valid concerns I had not considered.
Again, I am working on that and sorry I was passive aggressive to you.