VSCode and exoskeletons
2025-07-04 13:50:34 +01:00 by Mark Smith
I‘m still in the middle of a big heads down programming sprint, all aided by AI tools in VSCode. Having been super successful in building an Auth 2.0 REST API, I decided to have a go at migrating the simple vanilla JS frontend I had built for it to a React + Typescript frontend. It‘s definitely not without setback and frustrations, but when you get into a good rhythm, the AI tools can really give you super powers. It‘s quite astonishing. But it‘s a bit like driving a very powerful car. If you don‘t know what you are doing, and where you are heading, it can be quite risky.
So with all the programming, I haven‘t been feeling much like writing blog posts. I think this might have something to do with the programming being so different to what I‘m normally used to, I‘m spending a lot of time thinking about that, and I‘m conscious that I don‘t want to be writing just about AI programming tools, because I can imagine that could get quite boring to read. But the truth is, I think that AI programming tools is what is on many of our minds at the minute.
These AI coding tools really do feel like some sort of brain exoskeleton sometimes. You suddenly have the ability to clear your head of all the tedium that normally fill up your memory banks and concentrate on the real important stuff.
Oh yeah, I nearly forgot, happy 4th of July to everybody :) #