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Which tool can actually help coding and refactoring, not just autocomplete? Copilot plugin for Jetbrains IDE can only suggest source to copy paste or at most replace single snippet I selected.

What I'd like to do is to ask "write me libuv based event loop processing messages described by protobuf files in ./protos directory. Use 4 bytes length prefix as a frame header" and then it goes and updates files in IDE itself, adding them to CMakeLists.txt if needed.

That would be an AI assisted coding and we can then discuss its quality, but does it exist? I'd be happy to give it a go.



Take a look at the latest version of cursor - its composer tool does exactly this.


Yes. I built a tool exactly for this use case: a coding task that requires context from multiple files and edit across multiple files.

Do let me know what you think.

https://prompt.16x.engineer/


similar to how we have language servers for code analysis and syntax highlighting, we need to have AI assist server, so that any IDE can pull instruction what to do with what file


I think the problem is it's hard to monetize such a piece of software. It would need to come from either open-source or sponsored by big tech company.

Maybe MCP is a step in that direction?

https://www.anthropic.com/news/model-context-protocol


aider does this, plus there's an architect mode to help think through, well, architectural aspects




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