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When perfect code isn’t enough: My journey with AI IDEs | N’s Blog

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Last month, I asked Claude to help refactor a React component. The code it wrote was beautiful - clean, well-documented, following all the best practices. It also quietly broke our error tracking system, removed a crucial race condition check (that admittedly looked like a bug), and duplicated three utility functions with slightly different implementations. Sound familiar? The AI coding space is exploding right now. Cursor hit $50M ARR, Lovable.ai reached $4M in 4 weeks, and every day there’s a new “AI-powered IDE” on Product Hunt. Clearly, developers want AI assistance. Yet despite these impressive numbers, I believe current AI coding tools are fundamentally solving the wrong problem. That’s why I’m building another one.

By Namanyay Goel Jan 3 2025 Subscribe Last month, I asked Claude to help refactor a React component. The code it wrote was beautiful - clean, well-documented, following all the best practices. It also quietly broke our error tracking system, removed a crucial race condition check (that admittedly looked like a bug), and duplicated three utility functions with slightly different implementations. Sound familiar? The AI coding space is exploding right now. Cursor hit $50M ARR, Lovable.ai reached $4M in 4 weeks, and every day there’s a new “AI-powered IDE” on Product Hunt. Clearly, developers want

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