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Agentic coding deserves more than a chat box bolted onto VS Code

49 points by evanklem2004 ago | 18 comments

grim_io |next [-]

This might be one of the strangest product video editing decisions I've seen.

leecommamichael |root |parent |next [-]

Yeah, it has me wondering why this project is trying to entertain me with a video.

evanjrowley |root |parent |previous [-]

Has there ever been an IDE demo video with better music?

tomjakubowski |root |parent [-]

The intro to Erlang: The Movie has a pretty boss anthem. (if you squint, Erlang/OTP is kind of an IDE, when you live in the REPL) https://youtu.be/xrIjfIjssLE

kylemaxwell |next |previous [-]

Is this just a vibe-coded IDE? The tagline "Modular IDE designed for agentic coding" and description don't really summarize what this does differently, and I'm not looking at a video to figure that out.

zby |root |parent |next [-]

The video seems to be about mushrooms.

kordlessagain |root |parent |previous [-]

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avree |next |previous [-]

Like with most full products that are vibecoded, there's very little to no originality in this - just strange packaging of things that already exist.

ch4s3 |root |parent [-]

Repackaging of existing concepts is kind of just what a lot of new tech products are, right?

ASalazarMX |root |parent [-]

But the ones that repackage as part of improvement are the ones that usually stick. Repackaging as a lesser product only works if your brand strength is being cheap.

ch4s3 |root |parent [-]

no argument there.

blitzar |next |previous [-]

if someone would give me 60bn to put a chatbox in vscode I would happily do it

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antonvs |next |previous [-]

> Agentic coding deserves more than a chat box bolted onto VS Code

So, Antigravity 2.0 then?

rzzzt |root |parent |next [-]

Cursor 3 as well.

lostmsu |root |parent |previous [-]

Antigravity 2.0 looks exactly like codexia (as of 0.26, I forked it)

hootz |next |previous [-]

So the defaults are Codex and Claude? I use neither.

devin |next |previous [-]

It would appear that the author of this posted a big pile of AI slop describing project and was heavily downvoted.

at-fates-hands |next |previous [-]

Am I the only one who is getting tired of all the AI stuff in VS Code? I just want to open my ide and not be greeted by a dozen AI prompts begging to have it code something for me.

Its such a distraction. I want less of this stuff not more of it.

prashar32 |next |previous [-]

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evanklem2004 |previous [-]

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