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Waterfall in 15 Minutes or Your Money Back
Waterfall in 15 Minutes or Your Money Back
“In the end, we might see that what makes your product win isn’t brute-forcing code. It’s designing an experience users love. Because if we can spin up 10 versions of Instagram in a weekend, the tiebreaker won’t be how elegantly the code is written. It’ll be which one resonates with people—and that’s a design and product problem, not purely an engineering one.”
·harper.blog·
Waterfall in 15 Minutes or Your Money Back
Baby steps into semi-automatic coding
Baby steps into semi-automatic coding

Each coding session became its own contained exploration:

Start fresh: New directory of docs in a new git branch

Write a spec.md: A couple hundred words of "here's what I actually want"

Get a plan.md: Ask the AI to turn my vague intentions into concrete steps

Iterate on the plan: Edit it, have the AI critique it, answer questions, repeat until it's actually coherent

Let the agent loose: "Okay, enact the plan"—or, sometimes "Make it so"

Babysit appropriately: Review the code as it emerges, redirect when it goes off the rails

Wrap up with notes.md: Have the AI reflect on what we built and what we learned

·blog.lmorchard.com·
Baby steps into semi-automatic coding
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Jetbrains: are we supposed to use Junie or AI Chat? : r/Jetbrains
Jetbrains: are we supposed to use Junie or AI Chat? : r/Jetbrains

I think from a UI/UX perspective there is some room for improvement, but to answer your question they behave fundamentally different:

AI Chat/AI Assistant is more of a one-off interaction with an LLM

  • so it's comparatively fast
  • but the scope of the task is limited comparatively

Junie is our AI Agent - I like to think about it in a way that Idea and the LLM have more of an automated conversation till it comes to the best result for your original prompt

So, to your question, when to use what, I think patterns will manifest here more clearly over the next weeks and months but the way I use it:

  • for simple tasks (generate a test, generate a method) => AI Assistant
  • for broader scoped tasks (entire feature development, refactorings, tests for a complete feature, UI design etc) => Junie
  • for explaining the current state of the software (functions, git commits, etc.) => AI Assistant

Both of them have their use case and noone get's phased our or similar, they both have different use cases with some overlay. I personally would like to see a more seamless integration (share context from AI Assistant with Junie) but those are things that based on the patterns identified over the next week we can polish and improve.

·reddit.com·
Jetbrains: are we supposed to use Junie or AI Chat? : r/Jetbrains