alt Hacker NewsIDEs are dead in the age of agentic coding.
Trying to find the stable point of agentic coding is like trying to catch a falling knife. Will you still need to look at diffs? I for one no longer make any edits, as a policy - I either tell the agent to fix it, or tweak a skill or memory or doc so it doesn't make the same mistake a second time, or configure something adversarial. But does that continue indefinitely?
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pjmlp • yesterday at 9:05 PM
Say what?
I rather have my agents talking to my IDEs.
panny • yesterday at 9:06 PM
>IDEs are dead in the age of agentic coding.
I'm glad that works for you, but you'll pry my free software from my cold dead hands. :)
Agreed within the narrow confines of web dev (which is all that I do). I used to write 500-1000? LOC per day but now I've built several full fledged (250k+ arr) sites with more features than I've ever been able to implement in such a short time: all without editing a single line of code.
My guess is they are still very useful for more difficult code! But yeah, I can't imagine ever caring about "code" any more, and therefore cannot fathom the need for a full fledged IDE.