1.8: chat ide the slow way :)
This is also where I do most of my AI use. It’s the safe spot where I’m not going to accidentally send proprietary info to an unknown number of eyeballs(computer or human).
It’s also just cumbersome enough that I’m not relying on it too much and stunting my personal ability growth. But I’m way more novice than most on here.
I've found it's easy enough to have AI scaffold a working demo environment around a single component/class that I'm actually working on, then I can copy the working class/component into my "real" application. I'm in a pretty locked down environment, so using a separate computer and letting the AI scaffold everything around what I'm working on is pretty damned nice, since I cannot use it in the environment or on the project itself.
For personal projects, I'm able to use it a bit more directly, but would say I'm using it around 5/6 level as defined here... I've leaned on it a bit for planning stages, which helps a lot... not sure I trust swarms of automated agents, though it's pretty much the only way you're going to use the $200 level on Claude effectively... I've hit the limits on the $100 only twice in the past month, I downgraded after my first month. And even then, it just forced me to take a break for an hour.