As the author says, there's nothing wrong with the idea of the IDE. Of course you want to be using the best, most powerful tools!
AI showed us that our current-gen text-editor-first IDEs are massively underserving the needs of the public, yes, but it didn't really solve that problem. We still need better IDEs! What has changed is that we now understand how badly we need them. (source: I am an IDE author)
As the author says, there's nothing wrong with the idea of the IDE. Of course you want to be using the best, most powerful tools!
AI showed us that our current-gen text-editor-first IDEs are massively underserving the needs of the public, yes, but it didn't really solve that problem. We still need better IDEs! What has changed is that we now understand how badly we need them. (source: I am an IDE author)