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Comment by vovavili

1 day ago

Productivity. You generate the skeleton of the code with Codex/Claude Code/et. al. and refactor it manually. It's kind of unlikely that an AI agent will be able to one-shot every bit of code in the exact way you want, even with a fat AGENTS.md file. With a smart AI-native IDE like Zed, it will quickly be able to pick up what manual change you intent to do without you fully typing out anything, especially if they're repetitive. This helps enormously when you're debugging or profiling your code.

> Productivity. You generate the skeleton of the code with Codex/Claude Code/et. al. and refactor it manually.

This doesn’t mean much if you are using a terminal editor.

My setup I can do exactly the same? I get CC to do some work in a terminal window, I inspect and refactor in an IDE, and we bounce back and forth like that.

I have 2 monitors, Claude on one, IDE on the other.