... According to the 2025 @Stack Overflow Developer Survey (49,000+ participants), @VS Code still is the most-used dev environment, maintaining the top spot thanks to its marketplace. @Kilo Code , @Github Copilot , @Ultracite ... What are the extensions that significantly improve your coding workflow? Comment from fmerian(@fmerian): @Prettier was the MOAT. now I have a bias towards @Ultracite , simpler and faster. Comment from fmerian(@fmerian): @nathan044  any extensions in particular you'd recommend? Comment from fmerian(@fmerian): @viorelmocanu ... ... Thanks! :) Comment from Viorel Mocanu(@viorelmocanu): I've been tweaking this setup for about 6 months now, it's getting better by the day as the agentic harness matures, but plugins really help all this work well in VSCode

... brain . But at Loomal , we realized that even the smartest brain is useless if it doesn't have hands, legs, and a verified ID. Right now, we are all forcing our agents to live as "ghosts" in the machine borrowing our emails, hacking our 2FA, and piggybacking on our identities. This doesn't scale, and it isn't secure. We built Loomal.ai to be the foundational identity layer for the Agentic Age. What does "Agent-Native Infrastructure" actually look like ... ... more than just a wrapper. We ve built the plumbing that allows an agent to act as a first-class citizen: Verified Identity: Every agent gets its own DKIM-signed inbox. No more "borrowing

... pushback on. --- Agents already need real addresses. I've been working on this for over a year, and the pitch just keeps getting simpler. Right now agents mostly live at a subdomain of whoever built the framework platform.com/yourname-7 . Borrowed identity, borrowed

... banks, not how trustworthy you are. The system rewards debt accumulation over financial responsibility. It's broken. Intentionally. WHAT WE'RE BUILDING A mutual credit network where trust creates capacity. Your trust network determines how much you can borrow. The formula is simple: more trusted connections = more capacity. Higher trust scores = exponentially more capacity. Network effects = system gets stronger with growth. When you need credit, you issue it to yourself. Your trust network backs it. If you want to transact ... ... banks. The interest goes to your community, not to distant corporations. Money circulates locally. Trust compounds. Communities get stronger. HOW IT WORKS Trust Graph: A network of relationships where edges represent trust and weights represent strength. Capacity Calculation: Your borrowing

... what s next, too.) Platforms: we ve spent time with Google DeepMind, OpenAI and Microsoft in the last few weeks. Their roadmaps heavily influence the entire industry. Other builders & events : it s amazing seeing what excites people. SF vs. London is hilariously different. VCs : they see thousands of pitches. Their pattern-recognition is a cheat code if you listen carefully. Customers : sometimes you have to ignore everything above and ground yourself in what the average, non-bubble, person ... ... walk back its reasoning in a way humans understand? I can easily imagine managers and execs asking agents to explain decisions in a meeting room. Menlo Park Ventures captured this well: https://menlovc.com/perspective/... The Mad Cow Disease Problem Borrowed

... because a document is missing or stuck in someone s inbox. So I built DueDeal , a lightweight AI platform that plugs into email and cloud, collects every document automatically, organizes it, and turns it into data to chase your borrower or for your underwriting flow and systems. What it does Pulls documents directly from email Classifies, names, and files everything automatically Extracts key financial data Sends automated borrower

... into a new hire s first week. Open questions (feedback welcome!) * Security model: Is read-only + TTL + provenance enough? What else is mandatory? * UX: Where should chips live in the composer to avoid friction? * Policy defaults: Org opt-in vs user-initiated with policy gates? * Limits: Ideal cap on chips per message (1 3?) and default TTL (single reply vs