[ianbutler]

To answer the question of whether something like this is the future of programming posed at the end of the article: I think in a lot of ways yes. It reduces the iteration time for making a new feature and handles a lot of the project management too. As AI get's smarter it makes sense to design workflows around how their capabilities can complement ours as developers and not just force them into existing workflows.

We're working on something similar to workspaces: https://www.bismuthos.com

We provide a workspace to build Python backends. Chat on the left, code and visual editors on the right. However, we also handle deployments, data storage (we have a blob store), serving (we built a home grown function runtime) and logging.

The experience is tightly integrated with our copilot and the idea is to get ideas off the ground as quickly as possible with as little devops hassle. Right now the focus is on building something new, but we're in the process of making it easier for existing projects to integrate with us too.

Feel free to drop by our (very) new discord too: https://discord.gg/E5Yn3vaM