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There are a LOT of IDE extensions that allow for agentic workflows with Gemini 2.5 pro and flash

It can be used with Aider. Although I absolutely hate the way that Gemini 2.5 writes Rust. It writes it like it's a C++ developer who skimmed the Rust reference yesterday. Perhaps it's great for other languages though

Cline. It’s literally black magic at this point.

Yeah, it is! SWE in a professional setting is changed for ever whether people like it or not.

No sane organization will accept anything less than forcing SWEs to use these tools moving forward. The details might differ and some will delay because "IP", but they'll all converge very quickly.

Not to say there's no joy in doing it the old-fashioned way on your own time :)

I've only used it with Cursor.

I've seen the light!

Aider or GitHub Copilot should work.