Does anyone else hate the no-IDE trend

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Summary

A developer criticizes the trend of AI coding tools removing code editors in favor of standalone chat interfaces, arguing it wastes tokens and ignores the needs of technical users who prefer managing code output within an IDE.

It seems like every tool is going in this direction of having a standalone chat interface, and then just removing the code editor for… what reason exactly? The amount of praise this gets makes no sense to me. It seems like an attempt to attract non technical customers who don’t want to see code, and encourage everyone else to burn as many tokens as possible. I’ve heard people say that they use codex or whatever alongside an IDE. Why not just use an agent in the chat tab? I’m not even against AI coding. I have no problem using it for most of what I do, I just want to manage the output. The agent + IDE approach seems perfect to me, why is everyone trying to immediately fix what’s not broken? I’m not trying to die on this hill, just looking for another perspective on why this is so popular.
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