AI and Coding

Blog posts on how others code with AI tools

Harper Reed’s My LLM codegen workflow atm Simon Willson’s Here’s how I use LLMs to help me write code

AI Coding Issues

Edward Yang maintains a compendium of issues, “AI blindspots”, he has founding coding with AI, particularly using Claude models¹.

Tools

• aider is a terminal based chat coding assistant
• continue is a coder assistant that injects into the VSCode IDE
• Cursor is a AI built IDE on top of VSCode

Tactics

• Adding the repo to the context window
  • repo-to-text
  • RepoToText’

Learning

HackerNews thread on when to use AI as junior engineer.

1. Edward Z. Yang. AI Blindspots. https://ezyang.github.io/ai-blindspots/ (2025).