Comment by chuckadams
5 days ago
> So using agents forces (or at least nudges) you to use go and tailwind
Not even close, and the article betrays the author's biases more than anything else. The fact that their Claude Code (with Sonnet) setup has issues with the `cargo test` cli for instance is hardly a categorical issue with AIs or cargo, let alone rust in general. Junie can't seem to use its built-in test runner tool on PHP tests either, that doesn't mean AI has a problem with PHP. I just wrote a `bin/test-php` script for it to use instead, and it figures out it has to use that (telling it so in the guidelines helps, but it still keeps trying to use its built-in tool first)
As for SO, my AI assistant doesn't close my questions as duplicates. I appreciate what SO is trying to do in terms of curation, but the approach to it has driven people away in droves.
I tried Junie in PyCharm and it had big problems with running tests or even using the virtual environment set up in PyCharm for that project.
You'd expect more from the company that is developing both the IDE and the AI agent...
JB's product strategy is baffling. The AI assistant is way more featureful, but it's a lousy agent. Junie is pretty much only good as an agent, but it's hardwired to one model, doesn't support MCP, but does have a whole lot of internal tools ... which it can't seem to use reliably. They really need to work on having just one good AI product that does it all.
I really liked Augment, except for its piggish UI. Then they revealed the price tag, and back to Junie I went.