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Comment by oompydoompy74 | Hacker News Reader

Looks like they forgot the part of the code editor where you can… edit code. Claude Code in Zed is about the most optimal experience I can imagine. I want the agent on the side and a code editor in the middle.

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That’s not really a negative for me as I can easily jump into vscode where I already have my workspace for coding set up exactly as I like it. This being a completely separate app just to get the agentic work right is a good direction imo

Yeah but its annoying to find the file the agent just edited without any IDE/editor integration, you have to add that command which opens the file in vscode after editing.

It would be nice to have an integrated development environment.

How dare you want your IDE to be integrated!

Usage like this is becoming a rarity. Most people are editing significantly less and "agent interfaces" are slowly taking the focus.

"most" people aren't even using AI yet

Of those that are, most are not vibe coding, so an editor is still required at many points

Obviously, in this context, "most people" refers to people who are using AI.

For greenfield apps you can vibecode it. For existing complex apps, where existing products where customers pay us a lot of money for working software, understanding the changes and context surrounding them in the code is critical or else nobody knows how the system works anymore and maintenance and support becomes impossible.

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