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Why I use Augment and why I may not anymore
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Why I use Augment and why I may not anymore
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I really don't understand Augment's product direction, so I'm sharing my feedback hoping it gives them more data points to work with. I say this as a user who wants Augment to succeed and concerned that they may be abandoning what actually makes their product stand out to chase hype.

  1. Intent. Where do I even start. Most of the colleagues I work with haven't heard of Augment. Developers know Cursor/Codex/Copilot/Claude Code but NOT Augment. I say this with reasonable confidence because I recently ran a developer survey. Augment's main user base does not seem to be vibe coders or junior devs. It's the seniors who work on large codebases and can actually tell the difference between Augment and the rest. As a senior dev myself I'm not gonna use Intent. At least not yet. I can't even get a single agent to do exactly what I want... why would I want to launch a swarm of them and waste all my tokens? Intent does not give me a way to properly review the generated code unless I open it in a separate IDE. I need my IDE's LSPs, go-to-definitions, compiler warnings, type safety checks, linters, intellisense etc. An external app like Intent cannot do this. So now I'm running two apps, constantly context switching and the experience is no better than running Claude Code CLI + IDE. The agent swarm should have been a feature in their IDE plugins. Maybe when we get to Claude Opus/GPT 8 we won't need to look at an IDE ever again, but right now, Intent is too early, incomplete, and a workflow downgrade.

  2. My main driver is IntelliJ IDEA (yes it is "old", heavy and expensive but its intellisense, refactoring etc. are still king). Augment is one of the few vendors out there that's bothered to make a decent JetBrains plugin. JetBrains AI + Junie sucks, GitHub Copilot also sucks compared to its VSCode counterpart, Claude Code plugin is just invoking its CLI (does this even count as a plugin?), and Codex doesn't have one at all. Clearly developing a plugin for JetBrains is suboptimal for these companies. But Augment kinda had my back here and it's one of the main reasons why I continue to use it. Pivoting focus away from this to build Auggie and Intent to compete with Codex/Claude Code seems like a losing battle.

  3. Autocomplete. One of the best out there. No doubt about it. But now it's going away? What? Why are you getting rid of one of your best features?

  4. Augment is great on large codebases. Their context engine is awesome but I have no visibility into exactly what it's doing. I'd like to know more about what's happening local vs. cloud and what it's doing to make IntelliJ crash so many times.

  5. Might be beating a dead horse here but, pricing. I understand Augment is essentially a "middleman" who cannot subsidize as much as Anthropic/OpenAI/Google. But their main argument "we are more expensive but it's not as bad as you think because with us it takes less prompts to get stuff done and you might even end up saving money" is not really holding up anymore. I am starting to have very good success rates on Claude Code and Codex without Augments' context engine. The value I am getting by paying the premium for them is dwindling. Something needs to be figured out here, and Intent is not the answer.