Your Coding Agent's Best Feature Isn't the Code

Your Coding Agent's Best Feature Isn't the Code About a year ago I wrote a piece on AI coding assistants - what was winning the race, where things were heading, what to spend your money on. A year on, that warrants a status update. I'll keep it tight. Terminal coding agents won the race ages ago. That question is settled. The IDE-embedded approach had its moment but the terminal-first agents run circles around them now. And at the top, it is basically a two-horse race: Claude Code and Codex. Eve