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by zubspace 1180 days ago
What I would like to see is an AI which actively or passively assists you, like an improved Intellisense. Something which looks over your shoulder, figures out what you're trying to achieve and points at errors in your reasoning or stuff you did not consider.

It can summarize the thing you're looking at, tell you how to improve it regarding readability and performance.

On a press of a button you can zoom out of the code into an UML like overview and it will tell you what's going on and how it is connected. If you don't get it, it knows how to make you understand.

Then you can tell it in a few words what you want to achieve and it will assist you in finding a solid solution which matches the coding style of the rest of your project. And while you're coding and lose sight, it will help you achieve the goal.

The current state is sub-par in my opinion. I can write good code and don't need an AI to write it for me. But what I want is something which assists me with understanding code, improving code or extend code without taking the steering wheel away from me.