Open-source coding assistant with terminal access

Show HN: AI in JetBrains that doesn't suck

Open-source coding assistant with terminal access operates in show hn launch.

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Hi HN! We’re William and Kevin from Sweep AI. We’re building an AI coding assistant for JetBrains IDEs.We previously tried to build an AI junior developer that writes GitHub PRs (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36987454). It was fun, but we ultimately decided to pivot. Here are a couple reasons it didn’t work:1. Our agent really needed a well defined spec to have a >90% success rate on tasks. Developers are lazy (myself included) when describing tasks and agents weren’t good enough to make up for it. We found developers don’t want to write a spec, they want to see the agent try and iterate with it. Fixing this is hard! The flow needs to be fast otherwise people get distracted and go scr

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Website: docs.sweep.dev