What's your AI programming tool stack?

cpfiffer
Wed, 24 Apr 2024 15:04:17 +0000
Tooling

Hey y’all! @tbeason suggested that I put up a little thread asking people about what misc AI tooling they actually use. I mostly just want to understand how people are using these tools in the ecosystem.

First – a note on general language model performance in Julia. @svilupp has a fantastic leaderboard for which LLMs tend to do better. At the moment Claude 3 Opus is the leader in Julia using the test specifications here. Test submissions are welcome!

My stack is a little clumsy right now because I haven’t quite dialed it in, but I use

Cursor as my editor. It’s a fork of VS Code with really good AI tooling. I do a lot of front-end stuff as well and it’s really nice to go to a a new file, hit Ctrl + K, and ask for exactly the file I want. You can even provide links to docs, other files, etc. to use as context. Very good tool, I shelled out for the pro version. You get Claude Opus calls for code gen and chat.

Claude Pro for very long architectural discussions or lots of guided code discussions, mostly because I use a lot of calls and I like the UI. I also do lots of non-programming chats with Claude, though using Claude via Cursor is better. I just haven’t nailed down the workflow yet.

PromptingTools.jl for misc LLM calls, mostly using Ollama as a backend with OpenAI for paid calls. I would switch to Claude but I just haven’t set up the API key and I am lazy.

AIHelpMe.jl for Julia-specific stuff when I’m in the REPL. It’s good shit and we should use it more.

What’s yours? What are you noticing as pain points or as things you really like?

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