CROSS-CATEGORY: DevTools Converge on Parallel Agent Orchestration — Cursor, Baton, and Replit All Ship Multi-Agent Coordination in Same Week

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Three devtools companies independently converged on the same architectural insight within days: developers need to orchestrate fleets of AI coding agents, not just chat with one. Cursor 3 (April 2) rebuilt its entire IDE around an Agents Window for parallel AI fleets with cloud/local handoff. Baton (April 1) launched an agent orchestrator with isolated git worktrees for Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode. Replit secured Accenture's investment (April 9) to bring its multi-agent cloud IDE to enterprise. The convergence confirms that 'AI pair programming' is already obsolete — the new paradigm is 'AI fleet management,' and the orchestration layer is the new IDE.