[jmvldz]

Coding agents are the future and it's anyone's game right now.

The main reason I think there is such a proliferation is it's not clear what the best interface to coding agents will be. Is it in Slack and Linear? Is it on the CLI? Is it a web interface with a code editor? Is it VS Code or Zed?

Just like everyone has their favored IDE, in a few years time, I think everyone will have their favored interaction pattern for coding agents.

Product managers might like Devin because they don't need to setup an environment. Software engineers might still prefer Cursor because they want to edit the code and run tests on their own.

Cursor has a concept of a shadow workspace and I think we're going to see this across all coding agents. You kick off an async task in whatever IDE you use and it presents the results of the agent in an easy to review way a bit later.

As for Void, I think being open source is valuable on it's own. My understanding is Microsoft could enforce license restrictions at some point down the road to make Cursor difficult to use with certain extensions.

Another YC backed open source VS Code is Continue: https://www.continue.dev/

(Caveat: I am a YC founder building in this space: https://www.engines.dev/)

[handfuloflight]

When can we expect a release from Engines?