... product teams that focus on the agent loop, tool calling, management of context and subagents can move faster and I think that's why Claude Code and Amp have the edge right now with Gemini-CLI also catching up. VS Code forks start with a huge surface area that comes with all kinds of scope creep challenges. This helped Cursor et al to get started and onboard users fast because the user experience is largely backwards compatibility. It meets people ... ... have much higher degree of trust in AI models. Comment from Andr J(@conduit_design): Hybrid! Ide+cli via Cline on claude max subscription. Save on tokens (45k calls for $100) https://cline.bot/blog/how-to-us... Comment from vishal pandey(@vshpandey96