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grim_io
This might be one of the strangest product video editing decisions I've seen.
bad_username
It is strange which is why it is great. So refreshing to not see another instance of corporate videoslop.
jaan
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
> 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.
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devin
It would appear that the author of this posted a big pile of AI slop describing project and was heavily downvoted.
hootz
So the defaults are Codex and Claude? I use neither.
evanklem2004
Codex and Claude are the defaults for now but it is built to use any CLI of your choice via the terminal.
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.

evanklem2004
It sounds like the sweet call of Vim is beckoning you.
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.
jreynar
I couldn't even get the video to play. Nonetheless I'm sort of meta excited by this product. It reminds me of the apocryphal "customers want a faster horse" thing associated with Henry Ford. Chat bolted onto an IDE was a great starting point, but if AI is writing the code, do even need an IDE? This doesn't go that far but it sounds wacky enough that it least it's trying to break out of the IDE mold. Not idea what we need instead of an IDE but if an IDE with chat is a faster horse then I'm really curious what the car looks like. Is it just reviewing UI? Even that seems like a short term solution since I'm not sure how long code reviewing will be around as agents get better at it and it might make more sense to do fractional launches and gather data than spend precious human time looking for a bug/needle in a diff / haystack...