For me it’s still to feel under control. And the fact that I don‘t want to inject it into every workflow. I‘m open to AI and use it daily. But my terms may be different then others. I want to control what I share and how. People have secrets and other things in a project. I sometimes rename things because the AI should only deal with the big picture. Paint me paranoid but that’s how it is for me.
Same for windsurf, I’ve been using it to generate documentation for code bases. It will generate markdown with mermaid diagrams to explain whatever you want to know; from the component architecture of an entire application, to the sequence diagram for a specific button, and data and ER diagrams.
But the approach to fit your entire codebase into one document so you can include it in your prompt context seems a dead end, instead the llm can use an agent to do targeted search through your code.
I partially disagree. Maybe it depends what circles you run in but at least here on HN I’ve seen Aider mentioned more times than I can count. Is cursor more popular? Yeah…but the people here are talking about Aider. That’s how I learned about it.
Maybe. But maybe some like the more disconnected way of coding with ai.
Why? It's just moving more of the grunt work of shuffling things around to the human?
For me it’s still to feel under control. And the fact that I don‘t want to inject it into every workflow. I‘m open to AI and use it daily. But my terms may be different then others. I want to control what I share and how. People have secrets and other things in a project. I sometimes rename things because the AI should only deal with the big picture. Paint me paranoid but that’s how it is for me.
Same for windsurf, I’ve been using it to generate documentation for code bases. It will generate markdown with mermaid diagrams to explain whatever you want to know; from the component architecture of an entire application, to the sequence diagram for a specific button, and data and ER diagrams.
But the approach to fit your entire codebase into one document so you can include it in your prompt context seems a dead end, instead the llm can use an agent to do targeted search through your code.
Cursor is all the rage. Nobody talks about Aider, sadly.
I partially disagree. Maybe it depends what circles you run in but at least here on HN I’ve seen Aider mentioned more times than I can count. Is cursor more popular? Yeah…but the people here are talking about Aider. That’s how I learned about it.
The future is not evenly distributed.