Ask HN: Where to get started with AI assisted coding?
I've been programming for 2 decades now, so I'm a bit over the hill. And admittedly been in management roles so the only coding I do is in my spare time now. I mostly program Swift and Python. I'd like to get started by making some updates to a long standing python/django app I have, and then I'd like to look into making something from scratch for iphone. I'd like to use the best tools, and I'm fine with paying. Where to get started?
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As someone with programming experience, I would personally recommend starting with Cursor. It has three modes: chat, composer, and agent, for varying degrees of “ask questions about my code” to “do the coding for me” so that you can experiment with different workflows. Since it’s an IDE and can import your settings from VSCode or similar it will also feel integrated/familiar.
[1] : http://bit-player.org/2023/ai-and-the-end-of-programming
"From 2023" is an eternity in AI development. Do you mean that he was clickbaiting originally, or that he changed his mind, or just what?
That matches my general impression (except that it does seem to "understand" some ideas in the sense of accurately modelling them, and it's not at all limited by typing speed).
[0] https://levelup.gitconnected.com/license-to-kill-coding-with...