Code Editors are now just Diff Viewers

CoderOne · Beginner ·💻 AI-Assisted Coding ·4d ago

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Code editors aren't for writing code anymore. They're just diff viewers. Senior dev Cory House said it on stage — and after watching my own screen, I think he's right. I write less than 5% of my code now. The rest? I just read what Claude Code and my agents generate. In this video I break down why VSCode, Cursor, and Codex are all becoming diff viewers in the agentic coding era and why the editor didn't die, it got demoted. The real bottleneck now isn't writing code. It's reading it. 📚 Learn to write clean React code https://solidreact.dev 🎉Our Newsletter is live! Join thousands of other developers https://islemmaboud.com/join-newsletter 🐦 Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ipenywis 💻 Github Profile: https://github.com/ipenywis Made with 💗 by Coderone

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Code editors aren't for writing code anymore. They're just diff viewers. Senior dev Cory House said it on stage — and after watching my own screen, I think he's right. I write less than 5% of my code now. The rest? I just read what Claude Code and my agents generate. In this video I break down why VSCode, Cursor, and Codex are all becoming diff viewers in the agentic coding era and why the editor didn't die, it got demoted. The real bottleneck now isn't writing code. It's reading it. 📚 Learn to write clean React code https://solidreact.dev 🎉Our Newsletter is live! Join thousands of other developers https://islemmaboud.com/join-newsletter 🐦 Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ipenywis 💻 Github Profile: https://github.com/ipenywis Made with 💗 by Coderone
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