KimAresen's honest review, Interview with Java Champion Vlad Mihalcea course
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I really enjoyed the interview; it was packed with insightful content. I found it very engaging as it focused well on "what developers should do in the AI era." To be honest, there are times when I feel a sense of dread, wondering if I should even continue studying development because of AI. However, the perspective that "verification and responsibility ultimately belong to humans" served as a great answer for me. I have one remaining question I'd like to ask. What is the position of the IDE in the AI era? These days, environments designed for agents rather than humans, like ADEs (Agent Development Environments) such as Orca, are emerging. Personally, I still believe that looking directly through an IDE (such as stepping through the flow with a debugger) is crucial for a human to understand the code. In a trend where tools are increasingly becoming agent-centric, I'm curious to know your thoughts on what will happen to the "IDE as a tool for human understanding."
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🇬🇧 Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed this interview. We chose to discuss AI and its impact on the industry because it is a real concern for many developers now, no matter where they live. I used a translation tool to read your comment, so I'll reply in English, hoping it will be properly translated into Korean. Related to your question, I'll provide you with my answer below: > What is the position of the IDE in the AI era? I'm using both Claude Code and IntelliJ IDEA because the IDE is very useful for navigating a project, running tests, debugging applications, and reviewing the overall flow of a given request. At the moment, I'm working on a new project, and while Claude Code can generate the examples, I still want to run the code manually and see how things are working and why they work in a certain way. Many times, I bump into all sorts of issues that AI generated, which look harmless during review, but they could cause problems in production. So, I'm also using an IDE, and since the Claude Code plugin in IntelliJ IDEA is not that great, I use the CLI for Claude Code, which is actually better because the CLI is for AI while the IDE is for me, so I made a little bit of a distinction.
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