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I do quite a bit of coding in C#, and have a lot of experience, and personally I haven't found LLMs to be that great a help at writing C#.

First, LLMs are great at learning new tech stacks, but good ol' ASP.NET has been pretty much stable since forever. Second, I think Rider/Resharper is the greatest piece of autocomplete tech ever made, seriously nothing ever comes, close, which means I'd rather do a refactor using them than do something similar by prompting the AI and hoping for the best. Also probably my experience makes me far less accepting of LLMisms, but that might just be on me.

Lastly, AI seems to be focused around its own set of tooling, like Cursor, which is fine for TS but is far worse than Rider for things like C#. I know I could kludge things together, but still.

As for Roslyn...

I have some experience writing codegen/analyzers at my company and it feels like typical a Microsoft tech product, like WPF or Powershell.

Brilliant idea (that's a market first as well) combined with really solid technical fundamentals, but plain confusing and overcomplicated UX, that makes it a chore to use. Seriously the amount of scaffolding you need to make even for a simple analyzer is just nuts





> Lastly, AI seems to be focused around its own set of tooling, like Cursor

Nah, the best coding LLMs are console applications like Claude Code, Codex CLI and the like.

Editor integration mostly brings more tools, like tapping into different validators on VSCode and examining the "problems" view.

Also Rider's autocomplete is at least partially AI powered unless you specifically disable it IIRC.


Why I never bothered writing one is the scaffolding, and the dumb idea to write code with WriteLines instead of a nice experience like T4 templates.



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