Goodness. This is coming right on the heels of Windsurf’s acquisition.

What’s interesting though is nearly most if not all of these IDEs are forks of VSCode.

Some questions:

1. How long will this trend of AI IDE’s continue?
2. Is it a hype train?
3. What happens when the creators of the LLMs decide they want their pound of flesh?

As one that is not a fork of VS Code, take a look at Zed (https://zed.dev/). This IDE is written from scratch in Rust and uses the API keys you provide or even local LLMs via LM Studio or Ollama.

I am clearly far behind. I don’t even know what this agentic IDEs do.