I Think I Figured Out What an AI IDE Looks Like

I’ve been mulling the UX arc I’ve been going through over the past couple of years, and I think it was mostly the same for everybody: Copy/paste into a chat web UI IDE with a chat sidebar (VS Code, Zed, etc.) TUI chat (Mistral Vibe, pi, Codex CLI, Claude CLI, etc.) Rich chat in a native app (Codex desktop, Claude desktop) Web chat with rich interactive widgets (piclaw) Since I spend a lot of time on my iPad, piclaw’s web timeline has become my default–I can pop open the terminal or the editor at will, but coding is still a game of balancing drudgery with creativity, and the “creative” part works well in chat. At least for me, using AI for my projects has been a matter of speeding up the review cycle. If you open a new chat thread for every feature or fix, going back to the editor takes you away from the flow–it’s much easier to have the model spew the changes in the chat, highlight the bits you want changed, and iterate directly in it. And I’ve just realised, after adding iPad text…