Comment by supermatt

i am no clearer on what setup the author is using? are you hand coding all these non-code agents you mention? You talk about zed, then about cursor - don't they both do the same thing, or are you using 2 IDEs to write your code? What tooling is used for these async agents that are doing things while i eat my breakfast?

I really want to like AI assisted coding, but I guess i am just stuck as to what to do.

I have tried co-pilot, both 2 years ago, and recently. I have tried some other AI plugin on VScode (i thought that was cursor, but I don't see it in the extensions when i now search, so it was probably something else). If anything, I have found with these solutions that they are great for the first few tasks - generate these models, scaffold this, add oauth, etc - but after that they lack all consistency with the code they themselves generated (like if i add a new model, the output is wildly different to what it already created) and it takes more time to rewrite that output than to copy-paste and change whats already there.

@op - could you explain exactly what tooling you are using, maybe give an example of these async agents, etc? Would be most appreciated for us luddites who would love to be more productive.