Stephen Downes

Jon Udell introduces Bram, an integrated development environment (IDE) for writing software with the assistance of Claude Code or Codex. Udell points - correctly - to how well the AI works with the underlying terminal technology - Linus shell commands, git, perl, and the rest. It makes previously complex tasks a lot easier. I have a similar experience using VS Code, another IDE, with the Claude Code plugin (don't use Claude via Copilot, that gets very expensive). The point here is that the IDE isn't replacing my learning; instead, it's doing things I was never going to learn.