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:desktop_computer: :desktop_computer: Which AI assistant / plugin are you using for KMP?

Personally I use still GH Copilot, which does the job of auto completion quite well, but i’m missing the advanced features like saying “_add a new api endpoint xyz, create repo, usecase and consume it in viewmodel_, follow this base setup for my usecase (returns flow of etc., like a `.cursorrules` file)

Does someone use Cursor for this?

None. I explicitly turn off all that. As someone said on Mastodon recently: Programming is the interesting part. Code review is boring. Why should I let the computer create bad code that I have to review, instead of writing the good code myself?

<@U0E2MNCPN> has some interesting videos about using AI assistants with Kotlin - <https://www.youtube.com/@PairingWithDuncan>

<@U6PHE0D1U>  i understand it from a programmer’s perspective, but the productivity boost is real and undisputed in my opinion. I spend on repetitive boilerplate code less time and often times are the method or at least line completion suggestions correct. So i am objectively more productive while keeping the same code quality

<@UFT11FKSP> will check them!

<@U098MB5947Q> could you explain a bit your setup and size of the project? Is it multimodular? What’s in your .cursorrules? What works well what doesn’t? Very curious!


This one is small and green field, compose multiplaform.
I am also using it on very big project but it is old xml/kotlin/android only.

Also no cursor rules, i never got into it. Probably should :slightly_smiling_face: Just give it a go, folks are saying claude code is even better but didnt try it yet

Not really for Kotlin Multiplatform, but for Android and Jetpack Compose, I use Claude Code by Anthropic. 
I find it a top-tier tool for agentic coding tasks. A friend of mine is using it for his Compose Multiplatform project, unfortunately it’s closed-source, but mine is available on GitHub. 
We’re not using it for vibecoding, just as a programming assistant. Short, clear tasks with well-defined requirements give the best results. :slightly_smiling_face: 

<@U0689N84QF9> the productivity boost is not undisputed. In fact, there is research showing that while developer may _feel_ more productive, they actually are not. There are a few different studies on this, but here's Fortune reporting on one: <https://fortune.com/2025/07/20/ai-hampers-productivity-software-developers-productivity-study/>

Also, if you write a lot of boilerplate, you should probably spend some time improving your internal API's so you don't have to write any boilerplate.

Kotlin does a decent enough job at making first class functions easy to use to avoid a lot of boilerplate. It's not as good at it as Lisp, but it's a lot better than Java.

I am currently using Augment Code. It is a plugin that you can install on any Jetbrains ide. It took me a ton of configuration time but now I barely write a single line of code. 