Shadow Code AI - The Antidote to Vibe Coding
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Shadow Coding is an AI-coding technique that involves writing pseudocode and having the AI transform that into high-quality, production-ready code.
It's better than Vibe Coding because it can:
- Product consistently high-quality code,
- That is closer to what the developer wants,
- Faster and using fewer tokens,
- With significantly cheaper and open-source models.
Shadow Code is available as a free & open-source VS Code and Cursor Extension.
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You can try out Shadow Code AI on the VS Code Extensions Marketplace and Cursor Extensions Marketplace. It's free and open-source!
Hi everyone.
I built Shadow Code because vibe coding felt unintuitive to me. As a developer, I naturally think in code, not paragraphs. To have to first translate the code in my head to english instructions and give it to the AI, only for it translate it back into code felt like a unnecessary detour.
I asked myself: "What if we could directly give the AI the rough code in our head and have it give finished code back? It would make both, the developer's and the AI's job a lot easier."
The inevitable result of that question is Shadow Coding, and my extension: Shadow Code AI.
LFG. All the best