Okay so I finally have to ask this. I’m sorry folks please don’t “lack of knowledge me” too hard. Back in the day, and I’m talking VisualAge Java, early Eclipse, and then eons and eons ago when I first touched IntelliJ… even before code completion got all fancy, our IDEs just gave us stuff for free. Little lines in the gutter telling you a method was never called. Warnings when you declared a variable and never used it. Dead code detection. Import cleanup (ctrl-shift-o is still like IN me). Structural analysis tools. All of it just… there. No AI. Just the compiler and static analysis doing their thing. So now with Claude Code… like is there a concept of non-AI, linter-based code fixing happening as the agent works? Like I know I can set up a instructions and skills and that says “run eslint after every edit” right after I say “remember we have a virtual environment at XYX” or whatever EVERYTIME I start a new session… but that burns through tokens having the agent read and react to linter output and thats like…dumb. Am I missing something obvious? Is there a way to get that baseline IDE hygiene layer without routing everything through the LLM? Oh … and another thing while the young guys roll their eyes and sigh, When I was an intern in the 90s, my mentor told me she’d rather quit than write code without a proper debugger. She was a dbx person. This was the era before The Matrix and Office Space, for context. Step in, step over, step out, set a breakpoint, inspect the stack. You know. So when Claude Code hits a bug and starts doing the thing where it goes “let me try this… no wait let me try this” over and over, basically just headbutting the wall… has anyone figured out a way to have it actually just use a debugger? Like set a breakpoint, look at the actual runtime state, and reason from real data instead of just staring at source code and guessing? These two things, static analysis and interactive debugging, are the boring stuff that made us productive for like 30 years and I genuinely don’t know how they fit into this new world yet. Do you know <meme of the star-lord guy before he was in shape> submitted by /u/Watchguyraffle1
Originally posted by u/Watchguyraffle1 on r/ClaudeCode