Hey, to clarify it's about the user experience of IDEs - how it feels to jump from one to the other, how the UI prompts you to add more credits (so you can end up spending a lot if you're not careful with prompts).
This has often drawn similarities to a slot machine, the way it is not deterministic what code will come out, and what changes to which files will be made.
and they prompt you to add more credits, it's seamless to spend more - slot machine is referring to the experience using it, not what is happening technically
I've spent an inordinate amount of time in the VS Code codebase. Given the complexity and size (I ran cloc on the src directory and it's > 1M lines of code) coupled with the amount of churn, I'm guessing most of the forks are woefully behind.
Were you using Copilot? I haven't tried VS Code for a while, I guess I can have that one open too. You can even have Windsurf inside VS Code with the plugin I think..
Maybe Cursor/Windsurf could've just been plugins? Only Zed.ai seems really different of the popular IDEs
that's so cool - I don't cycle but I just love the website and the language used like "Welcome , intergalactic athlete" haha
the video does a good job of showing the app too, good luck with it!
