> It feels like everyone and their mother is building coding agents these days.

For real. I think it's because code editors seem to be in that perfect intersection of:

- A tool for programmers. Programmers like building for programmers.

- A tool for productivity. Companies will pay for productivity.

- A tool that's clearly AI-able. VC's will invest in AI tools.

- A tool with plenty of open source lift. The clear, common (and extreme?) example of this being forking VSCode.

Add to that the recent purchase of VSCode-fork [1] Windsurf for $3 billion [2] and I suspect we will see many more of these.

[1]: https://windsurf.com/blog/why-we-built-windsurf#:~:text=This...

[2]: https://community.openai.com/t/openai-is-acquiring-windsurf-...