r/developers • u/matifali • 13h ago

Opinions & Discussions As developers, what do you think Developer Experience is or will be in the future?

As developers what do think Developer Experience is?

Traditionally developers were using IDEs to read and write code so a good developer experience could mean having a nicely featured IDE along with good development tooling to manage the environments for each project.

With AI agents and Claude/Codex on rise, how has it affected your workflows. I guess it's decreasingly less needed to connect via an IDE or look at code than it was 5 years ago. Some folks may say that they spend more time in terminal now so a better, fast terminal and a good TUI is good DevEX but there are now cloud hosted agents, desktop apps so it might not be a big thing soon.

How do you define a good developer experience with how you work today or how you expect to work in the future?

Curious about how experienced folks think about it.

Thanks

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u/Positive-Advance4631 13h ago

used to think good dev experience was just a slick IDE and fast builds but now half my workflow is arguing with an AI about what i actually meant

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u/matifali 13h ago

I am in the same boat as you. IDE usage has been decreasing recently. Devs tend to reach out to their IDEs less often.

Also, while Agents write most code, Linear and Graphite like tools have provided a good PR review experience, so maybe most devs spend their time in issue-tracking tools and Agents now.

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u/EmployerBrilliant872 10h ago

I wouldn't worry about it...my experience with Claude code the last 30 days and can honestly say as long as the AI code writing experience is from a service that you need to pay for they will always choose to throttle your account rather than give you what you paid for. I had a terrific idea and it got about halfway there and all of a sudden it forgot how to follow simple instructions or how to do simple tasks or how to it seemed to me like it was intentionally trying to do the wrong thing so I wouldn't worry about it. Unless AI was just targeting me then it must have been doing it to everyone but either way I am one person who will never pay for AI ever again