The Death of the IDE?

A debate between Steve Yegge and Nathan Sobo explores the future of Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) in the age of AI. They argue that traditional IDE architectures are flawed and obsolete for modern development, where the engineer's role is shifting from writing code to managing AI agents. Both agree that future development tools must be built around collaboration between multiple humans and multiple AI agents. This new paradigm, termed 'agentic engineering', requires IDEs to be reinvented as extensible platforms that can support complex human-AI workflows.