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

89 points by evanklem2004 10 days ago on hackernews | 33 comments

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

Has there ever been an IDE demo video with better music?

The intro to Erlang: The Movie has a pretty boss anthem. (if you squint, Erlang/OTP is kind of an IDE, when you live in the REPL) https://youtu.be/xrIjfIjssLE

sublinear | 10 days ago

That video is the perfect amount of awkward. I love it.

: theendisney | 10 days ago
10x productiviteit!

leecommamichael | 10 days ago

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

bad_username | 9 days ago

It is strange which is why it is great. So refreshing to not see another instance of corporate videoslop.

jaan | 9 days ago

Haven’t commented in years but I came to say this is an incredible video.

I think the uncanny valley of this video as a makeshift 90s infomercial captures the audience and sells the product!

Caveat: vaporwave is one of my favorite genres so take this with a grain of salt.

antonvs | 10 days ago

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

So, Antigravity 2.0 then?

: rzzzt | 10 days ago
Cursor 3 as well.
: lostmsu | 10 days ago
Antigravity 2.0 looks exactly like codexia (as of 0.26, I forked it)

blitzar | 10 days ago

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

: ai_slop_hater | 9 days ago
don't forget to fork and rename a chinese llm

kylemaxwell | 10 days ago

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.

zby | 10 days ago

The video seems to be about mushrooms.

embedding-shape | 9 days ago

The "have it your way" made me think about hamburgers, can't remember how/why though.

: adamsiem | 9 days ago
Burger King: https://youtu.be/KJXzkUH72cY

SequoiaHope | 9 days ago

Something I’ve realized lately is that AI makes some things so easy (like video generation) that you’re not required to do the hard work of planning and reflection that might occur with a more involved task. We’ve always been susceptible to rushed thinking but AI compounds this significantly.

cute_boi | 10 days ago

Yes, 90% of software in HN main page these days are vibe coded slop that no one uses.

devin | 10 days ago

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

injidup | 10 days ago

Ummmmm.

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

hootz | 10 days ago

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

avree | 10 days ago

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.

ch4s3 | 10 days ago

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

ASalazarMX | 10 days ago

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.

: ch4s3 | 10 days ago
no argument there.

at-fates-hands | 10 days ago

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.

: duskdozer | 9 days ago
https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium

mccoyb | 10 days ago

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

theplumber | 10 days ago

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

joshka | 10 days ago

Just show me a screenshot please

ricardobeat | 10 days ago

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

mcscxv | 9 days ago

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.