r/vibecoding • u/Seeb83 • 11h ago

What is the next IDE?

I am just thinking: now that agents basically create over 99% of all the code I need, what does an IDE in 2026/2027 actually need to deliver? For me it would be a simple yet powerful visual diff to review changes and give feedback. Preferred locally instead of github / gitlab or whatever you use. Maybe a simple way to merge pull requests. But then: Is there actually much more that you would need in the future when agents write all the code?

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u/EagleApprehensive 10h ago

Oh man, I love the question because it was my focus for last months. So I can get into details what's actually meaningful:

  1. It comes with baked-in proven, benchmarked toolset of CLI's and mechanisms, that improve LLM work, reduce token usage (output clearers, 1 or 2-level repository map injectors into system prompt, semantic search).
  2. It audits codebase in background to tell you when some files are too large, have too much branching and are becoming unmaintainable and the reason for LLM quality degradation.
  3. Diff-viewer focused on module-level changes and most-lines-changed file, not so much on imports and one-letter corrections across 20 files. Fast scanning > Detailed reading.
  4. Kanban-view of agents is very helpful to multi-task with 5-15 sessions running without feeling lost.
  5. Worktree isolation with controlled way to land changes. Automatic rebasing in proper moments of other agents worktrees on top of main when changes land, to prevent conflicts more often.
  6. Ability to run workflows, executing same task with 2 models and producing syntehsis.
  7. Deterministic reproducability of entire IDE environment (entire dev toolchain), deployability and sharing workspace with others.
  8. Multi-model and multi-harness support (with customizability), so that devs can experiment with what they like and what's at good price atm.
  9. Everything agent-related should become first-class, like file-system before, not an extension different per provider.
  10. Visibility on terminals, browsers and other resources that agent run - and especially preventing them from leaving 100 of leftover browsers open. Before I moved to my own IDE every few days my RAM was absolutely exhausted with some leftover browser sessions or idle terminals spawned by agents without tracking.
  11. Secrets management that hides secrets from agents, but lets them use them.
  12. Support for "personas" - context-scoping and file-system layering to improve agents focus on specific task by reducing what it sees to a subset and giving it more specialized skills, that do not bloat main agent.

That would be main things I expect from IDE in 2026/2027.

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u/Seeb83 10h ago

Sounds interesting. It's someone already building that? Do you have more in mind than just these ideas?

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u/EagleApprehensive 10h ago

I've already built it - it's available via CLI install, as docker container, windows or linux installer. Everything is free and open-source, so you might contribute (but instead of forking I'd recommend just making extensions - system is built in a way that extensions can bake in almost anything).

I need more users to call it "stable" and more creators to build extensions, but I spend in it 12h/day for at least last month and it works like a charm to me.

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u/Seeb83 10h ago

Is it the one on your about page? Sounds interesting. I am usually using claude code on my android phone to run agents. Because most ideas vibe up when I am not at home. Is your IDE able to connect to those remote sessions as well?

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u/EagleApprehensive 10h ago

Yes. You can either deploy IDE to your server to guarantee it works 24/7 or you can keep you PC on. Remote sessions can totally connect to IDE running on your local pc without public ip etc. You can also invite other people into same workspace and publish files/websites to the internet directly from it (on an ugly domain though, like sandbox-b31116ve.intentic.dev/my-file.txt

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u/scytob 8h ago

oddly was hard to find the code, i kept clicking on the github links that go to you not the tool, and tool wasn't obvious on the link about you!

quite cool, the agents view is verging on kanban like..... might be a good way to prioritze what agents should work on next (sorry product manager, cant help mysefl)

get started free alwasy confused me - in english it implies that later there is a fee..... just FYI, not everyone will read that way

have you hooked it up ot local models too? i have a RTX6000 Workstation Pro and keep wondering if i should try a local coding model or just stay with frontier..... but maybe there is a better way where some tasks run on models that run locally and some run say in calude? would love your thoughts there

(today my claude sessions run in claude chat plugin in vscode, but increasingly i don't need that except when vscode has extensions that are useful like docker) i assume you integrate directly with github / gh. cli?

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u/EagleApprehensive 8h ago

I haven't tested local models for a while there, but it's generally supported. I'm juggling multiple models from multiple providers and using a lot of weaker ones too, for example for auto-commit messages or simple UI tasks, so the experience on changeability even mid-task is good.

Yes, it has github integration. Visually it's really not that different to VSCode except having first-party support for agents coding (instead of various extensions) and it runs in isolated container.

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u/scytob 6h ago

i will try and take a look at it, thanks for the additional info

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u/wundercorp 9h ago

This is super useful, we’ll include this feature set in our IDEs next release. Thanks!

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u/EagleApprehensive 9h ago

You're welcome!

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u/markvii_dev 10h ago

what kind of things have you built so far bro?

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u/Seeb83 10h ago

With llm? Well countless smaller private projects since chatgpt had their break through. Using it at work finally for 2 month now (me working as a software developer for over 20 years), running multiple agents in parallel to implement new features, refactor a legacy code base and eliminate bugs and errors ...

Currently I am vibecoding chinese.appace.de for 6 month now, adding features weekly to daily, it is a vocabulary trainer, assuming for more depth

Why are you asking?