[Go in Practice] Writing Modern Go with AI: Testing JetBrains go-modern-guidelines and Refactoring a 1,039-line main.go

Background

In the AI era, even I delegate most of my code optimization or writing tasks to AI. However, due to factors in model training data, too many writing styles are outdated. This results in code that cannot utilize features of the latest Go versions, which is quite a pity.

Fortunately, JetBrains released go-modern-guidelines, a very useful plugin. It makes your AI Agent smarter and teaches it how to use the latest syntax to optimize your Golang code.

What is go-modern-guidelines?

The problem it aims to solve: Models have a knowledge cutoff, Go doesn't