Intent by Augment Code. Is spec-driven multi-agent development the next step after the IDE?

Augment Code has been quietly building enterprise-grade coding tools for large engineering teams, and they launched Intent. Тheir answer to what comes after the IDE.

According to their announcement:

"The bottleneck has moved. The problem isn't typing code. It's tracking which agent is doing what, which spec is current, and which changes are actually ready to review."

What makes Intent different is the living spec model. Requirements update automatically as agents complete work, so every agent shares the same state. No drift. No "which version are we working from?" A coordinator breaks your prompt into tasks, delegates across specialist agents running in parallel across isolated worktrees, and hands you a clean PR at the end.

In a recent Product Hunt thread on agentic coding setups, most developers were still stitching together Claude Code + Cursor manually and managing context across terminal panes themselves. Intent seems to be a direct architectural answer to that problem.

Worth noting: The New Stack recently covered how Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex are forming composable layers rather than one winner. Intent fits that picture. It's BYOA (bring your own agent), so you can use your existing Claude Code or Codex subscription inside it.

Curious whether the coordinator-delegate approach holds up on real production codebases. Has anyone tested it yet?