What a developer actually uses an IDE for now: diffs, navigation, watching agents
Sam_Witteveen · x · 2026-11-05
Sam Witteveen shares how he actually uses an IDE in the AI era: mostly not writing code, but reviewing diffs to see what the agent changed, navigating the codebase, running tests (and verifying they test something), reading docs the agent wrote, and giving agents better context than grep can. He made a video on the workflow.
Related event: JetBrains argues the IDE still matters in the agentic era(4 posts)→
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