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Published by Amp News (ampcode.com) (T1 source). The original is at https://ampcode.com/news/the-coding-agent-is-dead.

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Amp's team argues current coding agents are obsolete because new models are strong enough with minimal scaffolding. They announce killing the VS Code and Cursor editor extensions to free the models from editor constraints, citing a shift in bottlenecks from agent design to codebase and organizational design.

Firsthand product pivot from a notable coding agent vendor, with a concrete tool change and a stated thesis on where the bottleneck now sits.

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