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

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Post by devin » Wed, Jun 17, 2026, 4:35 PM UTC

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

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

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Post by injidup » Wed, Jun 17, 2026, 4:41 PM UTC

Ummmmm.

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/agents/agents-window

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

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Post by leecommamichael » Wed, Jun 17, 2026, 4:45 PM UTC

grim_io wrote: post #3

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

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

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

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Post by hootz » Wed, Jun 17, 2026, 4:46 PM UTC

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

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

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Post by prashar32 » Wed, Jun 17, 2026, 4:52 PM UTC

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

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Post by zby » Wed, Jun 17, 2026, 4:54 PM UTC

kylemaxwell wrote: post #7

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.

The video seems to be about mushrooms.

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

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Post by avree » Wed, Jun 17, 2026, 4:58 PM UTC

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.

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

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Post by ch4s3 » Wed, Jun 17, 2026, 5:05 PM UTC

avree wrote: post #17

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.

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

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

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Post by ASalazarMX » Wed, Jun 17, 2026, 5:21 PM UTC

ch4s3 wrote: post #18

avree wrote: post #17

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.

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

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.

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

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Post by ch4s3 » Wed, Jun 17, 2026, 5:25 PM UTC

ASalazarMX wrote: post #19

ch4s3 wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

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.

no argument there.