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Discussion on: Which editor/IDE do you use and why?

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Andreas Mueller

Vim (not even neovim). I like the modal way of moving around and copying and editing. I should probably move to something more modern like Atom or Sublime with vim keybindings, but I haven't found the motivation / energy to do so. I'm mostly writing python FYI.

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Matthew Hou

"AI + proper review pipeline = consistent quality at slightly higher speed" — that's probably the most honest framing of where we actually are. Not the 10x revolution, but a real improvement if you build the process around it.

The junior dev PR analogy keeps coming up and I think it's because it's genuinely the most accurate mental model. You wouldn't merge a junior's 500-line PR without going line by line. Same rules apply to AI output, but people skip it because "the AI is smart."

Static analysis is a good call. I've noticed AI-generated code fails differently from human code — it's syntactically clean but semantically drifts. Things like using the wrong enum variant, or calling a method that exists but doesn't do what the context needs. Those are hard to catch by eye but easy for automated tooling.