Reimagining Development in the AI Era
In today's AI landscape, countless programming tools compete for attention. Yet the true revolution isn't in AI's ability to write code—it's in transforming how humans and machines collaborate throughout the development process.
First-generation AI coding tools primarily focused on completion and suggestion, keeping humans firmly in the driver's seat while AI played a supporting role. The breakthrough we're pursuing goes beyond generating code to creating genuine, adaptive collaboration between developers and AI.
This is the mission behind Trae: an adaptive IDE designed to transform human-machine collaboration, enabling developers to ship faster, deliver superior results, and create greater value.
Trae's Vision: Empowering Developers with an AI-Powered Collaboration Partner
Trae isn't just another AI coding tool—it's The Real AI Engineer working alongside you. We're creating a fundamentally new kind of development partner that transcends traditional assistive AI.
What sets Trae apart is its ability to function as a complete collaborator in the development process. Rather than simply generating code on command, Trae independently analyzes requirements, considers alternative approaches, optimizes solutions, and adapts to your unique coding style and preferences through continuous learning. By handling repetitive implementation details while contributing meaningful insights at the architectural level, Trae creates a multiplier effect on developer productivity and creativity.
Human Collaboration is Essential, AI Needs to Become a True Partner
The real world presents complexities and nuances that AI alone can't fully navigate. Human emotion, creativity, and intuition remain essential elements in building products that genuinely meet human needs.
As AI capabilities grow exponentially, the key challenge isn't making AI better at writing code—it's creating the optimal collaboration model where humans and AI each contribute their unique strengths. This partnership approach unlocks possibilities neither could achieve alone.
Trae's core mission addresses this fundamental need: building a seamless collaborative framework where AI extends developer thinking rather than replacing it.
How to Put This Ideology Into Practice?
Use Conversational Development to Make AI Your Development Partner
Trae functions as an expert collaborator with deep understanding of your project and codebase. Unlike traditional tools, Trae processes every conversation through sophisticated reasoning to ensure high-quality, accurate results.
If you want to create a landing page, you only need to tell the AI a simple prompt: “Generate a landing page.”
Trae will design the appropriate structure and style, create corresponding HTML and CSS code, and explain the design thinking behind the code.
You can clearly see highlighted changes (diff) and easily fast-apply them to your project.
If you're not satisfied, you can quickly review the modification history and roll back to any version.
Flexibility remains in your control with version history that allows immediate rollback to any previous state. Trae seamlessly integrates with your workflow by executing terminal commands directly within the IDE and displaying real-time results in the built-in preview window.
This conversational approach transforms development from writing instructions for a machine to collaborating with an intelligent partner that understands both your intent and your code.
Dynamic Human-AI Collaboration
In Trae, developers freely shift between "AI-led" and "AI-assisted" modes based on project requirements and personal preferences. This fluidity allows you to optimize your workflow for each unique situation.
Therefore, we introduce two modes in Trae: Chat and Builder.
Chat Mode → You lead development while Trae provides targeted code suggestions and assistance. Perfect for when you have a clear vision and need smart implementation support.
Builder Mode → You focus on product and ideas, while Trae handles development execution—generating complete projects with front-end, back-end, environment configuration, and automatic debugging to deliver fully functional applications.
Trae Helps AI Flexibly Assist Different Roles
At Trae, we're redefining collaboration by enabling AI to adapt to different roles across the development process, seamlessly integrating into diverse workflows.
Let Product Managers Focus on Requirements, AI Generates Code Directly from Design
Product managers can now bypass technical implementation details entirely. Using Trae's multimodal capabilities, they simply provide design mockups and watch as the system automatically translates visual designs into production-ready code. This removes traditional barriers between product vision and technical implementation, allowing product teams to focus on user experience while AI handles the execution.
Let Developers Focus on Architecture, AI Handles Submodule Development and Bug Processing
For developers, Trae eliminates time spent on routine implementation details, repetitive bug fixing, and test writing. Simply instruct Trae to "design a backend system based on microservice architecture, with AI responsible for generating the user authentication module and logging monitoring module" or "write unit tests for the current interface." This lets engineers focus on high-level system design while Trae handles the implementation details.
This flexible role adaptation helps teams achieve significant improvements in both product quality and development efficiency, transforming how software gets built from concept to completion.
Ultimate Goal: Reshaping Development Paradigms, Expanding Creative Boundaries
Trae aims not just to improve development efficiency, but to create a new paradigm of human-AI co-creation.
We envision AI not as a tool but as an extension of developer cognition—an intelligent partner that thinks alongside you, expanding the boundaries of what's possible. This collaborative intelligence amplifies your capabilities, helping you transcend conventional limitations and explore new creative territories.
Trae isn't just an AI IDE but a platform for possibility. It breaks through traditional constraints by handling implementation complexity while contributing meaningful insights, freeing you to focus on what truly matters—innovation and creative problem-solving.
Our vision is simple yet profound: human creativity amplified through AI collaboration, creating a development paradigm where imagination becomes your only limitation.