{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Machine Learning Tech Brief By HackerNoon","title":"The IDE Isn't Dead! ","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/41200de3\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":690,"description":"\n        This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/the-ide-isnt-dead.\n             Why IDEs remain central to AI-assisted software development despite the rise of coding agents, CLIs, and autonomous tooling. \n            Check more stories related to machine-learning at: https://hackernoon.com/c/machine-learning.\n            You can also check exclusive content about #ai-coding-agents, #vs-code, #kilo-code, #cursor-ide, #developer-tooling, #claude-code, #agent-orchestration, #good-company,  and more.\n            \n            \n            This story was written by: @kilocode. Learn more about this writer by checking @kilocode's about page,\n            and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com.\n            \n                \n                \n                Every few months someone declares the IDE dead. The data says otherwise: VS Code usage is at 76% and growing, AI trust among developers has dropped to 33%, and the review bottleneck created by AI-generated code is getting worse, not better. The IDE is the only interface with the density of information and control needed to verify AI output at scale. Meanwhile, vendor lock-in is accelerating (SpaceX/Cursor, Anthropic's third-party blocks), making open, model-agnostic tooling a strategic necessity. The IDE isn't obsolete — it's the foundation of the end-to-end agentic engineering platform.\n        \n        ","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/KyA01h2FD2insgk-wX_xzV6vbJnTNl2BvPYVL-XaI9A/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzQxMjcyLzE2ODM1/ODI0ODgtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}