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Building an AI coding agent for .NET — what would you actually want from it?

We're building an AI coding agent specifically for .NET developers, and before we go too far down our own assumptions, I'd rather hear from people who actually live in .NET every day.

So, openly: what would make an AI coding agent genuinely useful for your .NET work?

A few things I'm curious about:

  • Where does AI tooling fall short on real .NET projects for you?
  • Is there something you wish it could do that you haven't seen anywhere yet?
  • What would make you actually trust it on a serious codebase?

Your feedback is valuable, please feel free to respond.

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u/Ok_Walrus6936 — 2 months ago
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Which UI framework do you prefer for your ASP.NET Core apps

I wonder which UI framework do you use for your ASP.NET Core apps. I really appreciate if you comment why.

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u/Ok_Walrus6936 — 3 months ago
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Been thinking about this a lot lately. With agents like Codex, Claude Code, and Cursor getting genuinely capable, I'm seeing two camps in our team:

  • "Let it scaffold everything — entities, DTOs, services, even the initial domain model. We'll review the PR."
  • "Boilerplate only. Anything touching business logic or architecture stays human-written."

For those of you working on bigger .NET solutions (DDD, modular monoliths, microservices), what's actually working for you in practice? A few things I'm curious about:

  1. Do you trust agents with cross-cutting concerns (auth, multi-tenancy, audit logging) or only with isolated CRUD?
  2. How are you handling the "AI generated something that compiles but violates our architecture" problem?
  3. Anyone here using framework-aware agents (something that actually understands ASP.NET Core conventions, EF Core relationships, etc.) vs general-purpose ones?

For context — we work on the ABP Framework and we're doing a live session today on exactly this topic, where our team is showing how an AI agent can generate code inside a structured framework rather than freestyling. If anyone's curious it's here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYVFn2lRuWw — but I'm more interested in hearing how the rest of you are handling this in your own stacks. The "agent generates whatever it wants" approach feels risky for enterprise codebases and I'm trying to figure out where the sweet spot is.

u/Ok_Walrus6936 — 3 months ago