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Beyond Code Completion: Better Prompt Context to Supercharge Your AI Coding Workflow

Pete Cheslock on March 12, 2024

AI code completion tools like GitHub Copilot have revolutionized the way we write code. These tools not only speed up coding tasks but also help in...
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Shani Shoham AppMap

Excited to check Navie out later this week

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Matthew Hou

This resonates. I've found that the bottleneck isn't generation — it's verification. AI writes code in 3 seconds, I review it for 30 minutes. What actually helped was building verification into the workflow: golden tests for critical paths, lint rules that enforce our patterns, CI that catches regressions before I even look at the diff. Now I trust AI output enough to focus my review time on the parts that actually need human judgment.