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

evanklem2004 76 points 29 comments June 17, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (14 comments)

grim_io

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

antonvs

> Agentic coding deserves more than a chat box bolted onto VS Code So, Antigravity 2.0 then?

blitzar

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

kylemaxwell

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.

devin

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

injidup

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

hootz

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

avree

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.

at-fates-hands

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.

mccoyb

The mushroom product video gave me a good laugh. Thank you!

theplumber

Ok, I am sold on this. I give you 60 billion!

joshka

Just show me a screenshot please

ricardobeat

Product looks awesome, please take the time to write a human-made README.

mcscxv

I just need shells — no IDE integration whatsoever. I work across several large codebases in Xcode, Android Studio, and Visual Studio, and I don't want anything wired into them; I just want shells running alongside, exactly like git. Forced docked windows here and there don't help. The best thing about Codex and Claude Code is that I can spin up as many shells as I want and work on as many bugs and features as I can handle in parallel.

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