I’m curious if there’s a IDE/editor where you can do inline LLM prompts while editing a source file that works more like text macros; like you say “> fetch the users profile from the something API” and it throws in the few lines of code you want for that, maybe it has multiple suggestions.
Have you seen a (good) implementation of this?
Background: I’m researching am for an article about where (manual) programming will go (or not go) in the future and what can be learned from the popularity of LLMs for programming.
@thomasfuchs copilot is pretty dang good at this and I still prefer this way of LLM coding. You can do an inline prompt, or I found good success at writing a comment of what I was going to do, and the autocomplete does what I need. It’s granular, so it’s quick to redirect intent and direction, and I still get to write the good stuff. It’s also so ‘cheap’ in comparison to vibe coding huge blocks