This lines up well with my experience. I’ve tried coming at things from the IDE and chat side, and I think we need to merge tooling more to find the sweet spot. Claude is amazing at building small SPAs, and then you hit the context window cutoff and can’t do anything except copy your file out. I suspect IDEs will figure this out before Claude/ChatGPT learn to be good enough at the things folks need from IDEs. But long-term, i suppose you don’t want to have to drop down to code at all and so the constraints of chat might force the exploration of the new paradigm more aggressively.

Hot take of the day, I think making tests and refactors easier is going to be revolutionary for code quality.