Next-gen IDEs

GitHub Copilot writes ~80% of Andrej Karpathy’s code with ~80% accuracy.. A reasonable hypothesis is that Copilot can make the best programmers 0.8 * 0.8 = 64% more productive.

• VS Code is an interface to text files.
• Language servers
  • input: text files
  • output: ast, code highlighting, error underlines
• building interfaces on top of VS Code?
• take advantage of:
  • extensions (built-in language servers)
    • syntax highlighting
    • jupyter notebook
  • file search
  • command pallete
  • typescript language server, mass renames
• missing fundamental features
  • database views
    • airtable/sheets/tableplus/postico/prisma studio
• alternative interfaces
  • implementation will be based on text
    • json, yaml, source code. code is data
    • easy to sync (via text based CRDTs)
  • examples
    • notion/notes/obsidian
    • workflow builder (zapier)
    • ui builder (zapier, webflow)
    • form builders